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

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  • Starr DiGiacomo

    http://www.businessinsider.com/climate-change-nyc-coffee-hiking-san...

    video in link

    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.

  • Howard

    Newly Discovered Roswell Alien Photos Unveiled (May 5)

    A collection of old Kodachrome slides dating back to the 1940s found in an attic in Arizona reportedly contain new images of what UFO specialists believe is proof that the human race has been visited by alien beings.

    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-...

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.” 

  • casey a

    San Andreas trailer

  • K Tonkin

    Nasa asks for the public's help to identify mysterious bright spots on Ceres

    If you vote, notice that 38% of those polled selected "Other" as the source of light on Ceres!!!

    Cast your vote for lights on Ceres

    Nasa scientists have asked the public what the bright spots on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres could be, being no closer to the answer despite the Dawn probe taking the most clear and detailed pictures of the planet ever.

    The Dawn space probe, which was launched in September 2007, took the pictures of Ceres that show the bright spot from almost 29,000 miles away. The probe is getting closer to being pulled into orbit around the dwarf planet.

    The pictures show two clear bright spots on the surface of the planet, which is around 590 miles in diameter and made up of rock and ice.

    Bright spots had been seen on the surface of the planet earlier, but only after the Dawn probe took detailed images, could Nasa scientists see that there were many bright spots close to each other.

  • Starr DiGiacomo

    http://www.dcclothesline.com/2015/06/07/army-corps-of-engineers-see...

    Army Corps of Engineers seeking ‘civilian workers’ ahead of ‘impending national disaster’?

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    ARMY CALLING FOR ‘WORKERS’ TO RESPOND TO FUTURE “DISASTER STRICKEN AREAS OF THE US”

    KENNEWICK, Wash. (INTELLIHUB) — A tip was sent to me by a reader via email Saturday documenting how the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is now soliciting civilian workers for “maintenance” positions ahead of what appears to be an upcoming and potentially ‘imminent event’ of some type.

    Shockingly as listed in the solicitation numbered “NCFL156545791382984S” which is posted at USAJobs.gov the Army Corps of Engineers is literally calling upon skilled individuals amongst the civilian population in search of potential prospects rather than using already active Army personnel.

    The “job summary” section of the solicitation strokes the prospect’s ego, reading:

    “Civilian employees serve a vital role in supporting the Army’s mission. They provide the skills that are not readily available in the military, but crucial to support military operations. The Army integrates the talents and skills of its military and civilian members to form a Total Army.”

    It’s also important to note that the position may extend up to “four years” and that “employees” will be required to respond to “disaster stricken areas of the US”.

    Did I miss something?

    Disaster stricken areas of the U.S., WTF does that mean?

    Does the U.S. Government know something that they have not yet told the general public?

    Is there an impending disaster looming such as the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano or possibly a predestined asteroid impact which rumor has may be coming in September? After reading a potion of the solicitation’s “about” section  you may be asking these very questions too. It reads:

    “Employees occupying these positions will provide emergency support to disaster stricken areas throughout the US. Employees must pass a stringent medical screening and be prepared to live and work in extremely austere conditions. Work schedule will initially be arduous, with much overtime. Sleeping arrangements may be limited to using a sleeping bag or in the vehicle used to move from location to location. The duty station for pay purposes for these positions is Kennewick, WA with possible 75% or Greater Business Travel in various locations throughout the US.”

    Additionally it’s important to point out that “Kenniwick, WA” is only the “duty station for pay purposes”, signifying that employees who have accepted the position can end up anywhere throughout the U.S. as “75%” of the job is listed as “travel”.

    Interestingly duties of the job include:

    “[…] computing and making flood releases, inspecting, repairing and maintaining the appurtenant structures and systems of the dam (skills include, but are not limited to, electrical and mechanical work); and participating in the dam inspections. Maintains and repairs facilities such as public restrooms, camp sites, picnic areas, park roads, etc. Repair equipment such as, hydraulic gates, hoists, hangers, cranes, elevators, sump pumps, water systems pumps, chlorinators and stand-by generators. Dam Operation; Collects humidity, temperature and wind velocity readings from weather instruments, makes gage readings pertaining to water storage and performs related calculations. Reports weather information and operating data in accordance with establishedschedules. Makes gate settings to regulate outflow of water in accordance with regulatory requirements. Inspects dam and appurtenant structures and equipment using standard inspection checklists. Performs a variety of miscellaneous duties such as, maintaining roads and clearing debris. Operates a variety of vehicles and vessels, such as, sedans, light duty pickup trucks and 5-ton trucks, tractors, fork lifts, motor boats, work barges, etc.”

    The job pays $21.93-$25.57 per hour.

  • Starr DiGiacomo

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3131160/Will-child-w...

    Will YOUR child witness the end of humanity? Mankind will be extinct in 100 years because of climate change, warns expert

    07:02 EST, 19 June 2015

    Humans will be extinct in 100 years due to overcrowding, declining resources and climate change, according to a prominent scientist.

    The comments were first made by Australian microbiologist Dr Frank Fenner in 2010, but engineer and science writer David Auerbach has reiterated the doom-laden warning in his latest article.

    He criticises the recent G7 summit for failing to deal with the problems facing the survival of humanity, such as global warming and exhausting Earth's resources.

    Mr Auerbach goes on to say that experts have predicted that 21st century civilisation faces a similar fate to the inhabitants of Easter Island, who went extinct when they overexploited their natural habitat.

    ‘Homo sapiens will become extinct, perhaps within 100 years,’ Dr Fenner told The Australian in 2010. He later passed away in November 2010 at the age of 95. 

    ‘A lot of other animals will, too. It's an irreversible situation. 

    'I think it's too late. I try not to express that because people are trying to do something, but they keep putting it off.’

    At the G7 talks in Bonn in Germany earlier this month, governments failed to come up with a clear plan to cut emissions in the coming years.

    It emerged that countries' current pledges for greenhouse gas cuts will fail to achieve a peak in energy-related emissions by 2030.

    This will likely result in a temperature rise of 2.6°C by the end of the century, the International Energy Agency said.

    ‘When the G7 called on Monday for all countries to reduce carbon emissions to zero in the next 85 years, the scientific reaction was unanimous: That’s far too late,’ Mr Auerbach wrote.

    ‘At this point, lowering emissions is just half the story - the easy half. The harder half will be an aggressive effort to find the technologies needed to reverse the climate apocalypse that has already begun.’

    He noted that ‘dangerous’ climate change was already here, but the question now was whether ‘catastrophic’ climate change could be avoided.

    Earlier this week, Nasa released new data that showed how temperature and rainfall patterns will change around the world by 2100. This map, produced using the data, shows the maximum daily temperatures in July under scenarios that predict carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere will reach 935 parts per million

    Earlier this week, Nasa released new data that showed how temperature and rainfall patterns will change around the world by 2100. This map, produced using the data, shows the maximum daily temperatures in July under scenarios that predict carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere will reach 935 parts per million

    The widely agreed goal is that global temperatures must be kept below a rice of 2°C by the end of the century.

    A 5°C increase, as predicted to occur by 2100 at the moment, would cause widespread flooding, famine, drought and mass extinction.

    ‘Even the 2°C figure predicts more than a metre’s rise in sea levels by 2100, enough to displace millions,’ Mr Auerbach noted in his Reuters article.

    But he said that current targets are simply not enough to keep under this 2°C target.

    The US has suggested cutting emissions by up to 28 per cent by 2025 from 2005 levels, the EU 40 per cent from 1990 to 2030, and China an unspecified amount.

    ‘Ultimately, we need a Cold War-level of investment in research into new technologies to mitigate the coming effects of global warming,’ he concluded.

    ‘Without it, the UN’s work is a nice gesture, but hardly a meaningful one.’ 

  • Mark

    Queen 'could move out of Buckingham Palace'

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33250274

    The Queen may have to move out of Buckingham Palace to allow maintenance work costing £150m to be carried out.
    It is one option being considered by the royal household, which says the palace needs new plumbing and wiring, with some rooms last decorated in 1952.

  • Mark

    Military and police in biggest ever London training exercise to prepare for terror attack

    http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/military-and-police-in-bigges...

    The biggest anti-terrorism exercise ever staged in London was underway today as 1,000 police responded to a “marauding” attack on the capital.

    Emergency services, the military and Government were being tested on their ability to handle a devastating terror assault on a number of key sites.

    The exercise was planned several months before last Friday’s beach attack on holidaymakers in Tunisia and the beheading in France but officials say they hope to learn vital lessons to improve their response to what is now their most-feared type of assault.

    The Met’s deputy assistant commissioner Maxine de Brunner said the two-day “live play” exercise, codenamed Strong Towers, was “focused on the extreme end of what may happen”.

    It is likely to draw upon tactics seen in the terror attack on Mumbai in 2008, the stabbing of two police officers in Australia last year and the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris in January.

    Ms de Brunner said: “When the very worst happens, we are prepared to be the very best. [It’s based on] what we think a terrorist could throw at us.”

    Speaking in advance, she insisted the mock attack bore no relation to any current threat. The threat to the UK from international terrorism remains unchanged at “severe”.

    Ms de Brunner said: “It’s not being created out of response to any specific intelligence. We have been planning this since January. It’s completely unconnected with anything that might be going on at the moment.
    “It will be hugely challenging for officers and partners. They won’t have seen anything like this.”

    One of the first incidents involved officers, including armed response units and others trained to carry firearms, being called to the disused Aldwych Tube station.

    Full details of the exercise, which will last until tomorrow afternoon, have been kept under wraps to make it as realistic as possible for officers on the ground.

    The public was advised that any gun-shots and explosions they heard around Aldwych were not real. Surrey Street, alongside King’s College London, was cordoned off.

    It is the first such event since 2012, when the capital’s ability to respond to a chemical attack was tested. The Government requires the Met to test its capability on a regular basis to respond to the “changing nature of terrorism”.

    The Home Office-funded “major live play” is part of its national counter-terrorism programme and also involved London Ambulance, London Fire Brigade and Ministry of Defence staff, British Transport Police, City of London police, City Hall and Transport for London.

  • Ecosikh

    Search for deadly asteroids must be accelerated to protect Earth, say experts
    Campaigners including Brian May and Lord Rees are marking Asteroid Day by raising awareness of the the threat posed to the planet by speeding space rocks

    from Today's Guardian

    http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jun/30/search-deadly-astero...

  • Starr DiGiacomo

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11706313/Aster...

    Asteroid tsunami could kill thousands in Britain, warn scientists

    Although the UK is not directly in an asteroid path, it is at risk from impact 'corridors' of known asteroids in the Atlantic Ocean and North Sea which could trigger devastating tsunamis

    Asteroids could wipe out the Earth unless governments come together and start monitoring them

    Asteroids could wipe out the Earth unless governments come together and start monitoring them Photo: Alamy

    Britain is at risk from an asteroid tsunami which could kill hundreds of thousands of people living in coastal regions, scientists have warned.

    Experts at the University of Southampton have developed software which predicts the impact ‘corridors’ of known asteroids and calculates the risk to communities if they struck.

    Although the UK is not directly under an asteroid path, it is at risk from impacts in the Atlantic Ocean and North Sea which could trigger devastating tsunamis. For example there is a one in 10,000 chance that a space rock could hit just off the coast of Norfolk within the next 85 years.

    PhD student Clemens Rumpf who developed the software – called Armor - is hoping it will help organisations like the United Nations decide whether to evacuate communities or send spacecraft to intercept deadly objects.

    Red lines showing impact 'coridors' where asteroids are likely to hit

    “We have discovered around 13,000 asteroids and around 500 of them have a chance of hitting Earth,” he said.

    “We can now calculate where they could impact and the damage that would be caused so that we could get evacuation plans in order.”

    “When an asteroid strikes one of the biggest problems is a tsunami. Britain is an island with lots of coastline, and lots of people living there so it is a risk.”

    The new maps show a wide asteroid risk zone running through Europe, passing directly over Scandanavia, Germany, France and Spain.

    The US is largely unaffected, although Florida and Louisiana could be hit. South Australia is particularly at risk with several asteroid paths crossing the Lake Gairdner National Park and heading up towards Queensland.

    The asteroid impact probability distribution was also combined with the Earth population map to produce the global asteroid impact risk distribution which shows that south east Britain is one of the most at risk areas of the world.

    Dr Hugh Lewis, Senior Lecturer in Aerospace Engineering, at the University of Southampton, added: “It’s very easy to be flippant because of the Hollywood effect but it is a real risk.

    “When you look at global vulnerability Britain is at very high risk. You might think that is odd because we are a very small country but we have a high population density on the coastline so that means we are vulnerable to an impact in the Atlantic Ocean.

    "Small asteroids are hitting the Earth all the time, and even if we don’t anything large, we are still likely to have tens of thousands of people dying in the next 85 years. It has a similar death toll to other natural disasters.

    “This new software not only allows us to see where an impact is likely to happen but we also simulate what might happen if we tried to deflect it, such as by using a spacecraft to give it a slow push in space.

    The last large asteroid to hit Earth was the Tunguska impact of 1908 which felled 80 million trees over an area of 830 square miles, with the energy of 1,000 atom bombs. Had that fallen in central London it is likely to have killed everyone within the M25.

    The Chelyabinsk meteor which hit Russia in 2013 injured nearly 1,500 people.

    The research was released to coincide with World Asteroid Day, which was co-founded by Queen guitarist and astrophysicist Dr Brian May to raise awareness of the importance of monitoring space rocks. It is backed by more than 100 scientists and astronauts including Astronomer Royal Martin Rees and Richard Dawkins.

  • Mark

    Could German UFO files finally reveal whether aliens have visited Earth? Court forces government to release top secret documents

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3155085/Could-German...

    Germany's parliament has been ordered to release confidential documents about UFOs after a lengthy legal battle.
    The existence of the files was disputed as recently as 2008, but a UFO enthusiast discovered evidence to the contrary and pushed for their release.
    News of the impending publication has been welcomed by UFO researchers, but some fear they may not be as exciting as hoped.
    The German Supreme Administrative Court in Leipzig ordered the Bundestag to make the UFO files available.
    In 2008, Dr Wolfgang Schäuble, Germany's Minister of the Interior denied that the German government had ever investigated UFOs, but in 2009, a UFO enthusiast named Robert Fleischer discovered a parliamentary department had been investigating extraterrestrial objects.

    A German blogger named Frank Reitemeyer took the Bundestag to court over the secret reports and the dispute has only just been resolved,The Express reported.
    No date for the release of information has yet been confirmed.

  • casey a

    Researchers confirm: The Largest Pyramid in Mexico has been found
    http://zonnews.com/news/450-researchers-confirm-the-largest-pyramid...

    Another features which makes this “unique” pre-hispanic structure stand out are the seven platforms which integrate it and were specific spaces intended to serve as palaces, temples, housing and administrative units. It is a unique structure for various specific functions within the social, political, economic and religious structure, which is not repeated in any other archaeological site of the Mayan world stated researchers.

    (A complete complex where the "inhabitants" ran everything from...)

  • Mark

    More post announcement planning than pre announcement, but more signs from the UK government that they intend to suppress after the announcement:

    WhatsApp, Snapchat and iMessage could be banned under new laws

    http://metro.co.uk/2015/07/10/whatsapp-snapchat-and-imessage-could-...

    You should make full use of WhatsApp, Snapchat and iMessage because you may not have them for much longer.
    The popular apps could be banned under new laws as they use encrypted messages.
    The government sees this as a potential security concern and home secretary Theresa May hopes to ban the types of messages with the controversial ‘snooper’s charter’, aka the Draft Communications Data Bill.

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    British Military Should Focus on Drones, Spy Tech, Says Prime Minister David Cameron

    http://www.ndtv.com/world-news/british-military-should-focus-on-dro...

    Britain's defense forces should spend more of their budget on spy planes, drones and covert forces to fight extremist militants, Prime Minister David Cameron said today.

    The government last week announced it would meet the minimum defense spending target set by NATO of two per cent of gross domestic product for the full five years of Cameron's Conservative administration, elected in May.

    "I have tasked the defense and security chiefs to look specifically at how we do more to counter the threat posed by ISIL and Islamist extremism," Cameron said in a statement, referring to Islamic State (IS) militants, who have carved out large regions of control in Syria and Iraq.

  • Mark

    Geographers offer advice on how to survive the earthquake predicted to obliterate the Pacific Northwest

    • Cascadia 'megathrust' faultline is 1,000km-long from California to Canada
    • It will clash with 700-square-mile plate in Pacific Ocean causing tsunami
    • Only way to escape is on foot as roads will 'liquefy', geographers say 
    • Start running when you hear dogs barking, they will be reacting to the sound of compressional waves which humans cannot hear
    • Citizens will have 20 minutes to walk or run to higher ground

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3161264/Escape-foot-roads-l...

    Scientists have outlined their tips on how to survive the earthquake that will hit the Pacific Northwest.
    The killer quake along Cascadia, a fault line which runs from Cape Mendocino, California, to Vancouver Island, Canada, is 72 years overdue, according to peer-reviewed studies.
    The 'Big One' will hit when Juan de Fuca, a 700-mile chunk of the Pacific Ocean, slides under Canada and America, causing the entire coastal region to sink at least six feet.
    When - not if - it arrives, it is unlikely the people of coastal Oregon, Washington and California will be able to escape.
    But if they want to try, there are a few tips they should keep in mind.
    Run, don't drive, to higher ground, says Kevin Cupples, the city planner for the town of Seaside, Oregon, in an interview with the New Yorker.
    The force of the quake will cause liquefaction, when solid ground acts like liquid, across vast swathes of the porous region.
    In the areas that aren't 'liquefied', the highways will likely be crumpled by landslides, with 30,000 avalanches set to hit Seattle alone.
    Citizens will have a 20-minute interval to climb to the highest altitude possible before the full force of the tsunami hits, scientists predict.
    Their alert will be when dogs start barking.
    The first sign the quake is coming will be a set of compressional waves, only audible by dogs. Then there will be the quake, then 20 minutes later, the tsunami.
    Geographers estimate that many could survive just by walking - however, they need to be going at least 3.5mph.
    If everyone ups their average speed from 2.5mph to 3.5mph, the death toll drops to 15,970. About 70 per cent of them would be in Washington, nearly 30 per cent in Oregon and only 4 per cent in California.

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  • Howard

    NASA’s ‘Planet X’ Files Leaked: NASA Knows Nibiru Is Coming (Jul 17)

    http://www.inquisitr.com/2259891/nasas-planet-x-files-leaked-nasa-k...

  • Moderating Staff

    Comment by Ryan X 1 hour ago

    Is this another big NASA "no big deal" announcement?  NASA tends to hype things that turn out to be much less than extraordinary when the information is released, but I guess we will find out tomorrow what NASA is so excited about... ...again. 

  • Starr DiGiacomo

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-Lccf54JGE

    http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one

    Annals of Seismology JULY 20, 2015 ISSUE

    The Really Big One

    An earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest. The question is when.

    When the 2011 earthquake and tsunami struck Tohoku, Japan, Chris Goldfinger was two hundred miles away, in the city of Kashiwa, at an international meeting on seismology. As the shaking started, everyone in the room began to laugh. Earthquakes are common in Japan—that one was the third of the week—and the participants were, after all, at a seismology conference. Then everyone in the room checked the time.

    Seismologists know that how long an earthquake lasts is a decent proxy for its magnitude. The 1989 earthquake in Loma Prieta, California, which killed sixty-three people and caused six billion dollars’ worth of damage, lasted about fifteen seconds and had a magnitude of 6.9. A thirty-second earthquake generally has a magnitude in the mid-sevens. A minute-long quake is in the high sevens, a two-minute quake has entered the eights, and a three-minute quake is in the high eights. By four minutes, an earthquake has hit magnitude 9.0.

    Lengthy article continues.............

    “I would think twice” about living in the Pacific Northwest.” Michio Kaku.


  • KM

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3179343/Failed-stars...

    Failed stars have aurora that glow a million times brighter than the northern lights and could show the way to new planets

    • Brown dwarf failed stars have been difficult to classify 
    • Experts now believe they act more like supersized planets than thought 
    • Discovery could help experts spot planets beyond Earth 

    The so-called failed stars, which are difficult to detect and also remain hard to classify, are too massive to be planets but physicists from the Universities of Sheffield and Oxford have revealed that they host powerful auroras just like Earth.

    The international team of researchers made the discovery by observing a brown dwarf 20 light years away using both radio and optical telescopes.  

    Their findings provide further evidence that suggests these stars act more like supersized planets, and could help researchers find new planets beyond Earth.

    So-called failed stars, which are difficult to detect and also remain hard to classify, host powerful aurora just like Earth, researchers have found.

    So-called failed stars, which are difficult to detect and also remain hard to classify, host powerful aurora just like Earth, researchers have found.

    WHAT IS AN AURORA? 

    Auroral displays result when charged particles manage to enter a planet's magnetic field. 

    Once within the magnetosphere, those particles get accelerated along the planet's magnetic field lines to the planet's poles where they collide with gas atoms in the atmosphere, producing the bright emissions associated with auroras.

    Dr Stuart Littlefair, from the University of Sheffield's Department of Physics and Astronomy, said: 'Brown dwarfs span the gap between stars and planets and these results are yet more evidence that we need to think of brown dwarfs as beefed-up planets, rather than 'failed stars'.

    'We already know that brown dwarfs have cloudy atmospheres - like planets - although the clouds in brown dwarfs are made of minerals that form rocks on Earth now we know brown dwarfs host powerful auroras too.'

    He added: 'Sometimes the best thing about a scientific result is simply the thrill of discovering something exciting and cool. 

    'The northern lights on Earth are one of the most spectacular and beautiful things you can see.

    'I've always wanted to see them, but have never got the chance. 

    'It's particularly ironic that I got to discover an auroral light show which is vastly more powerful and many light years away!'

  • KM

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3181719/How-stars-tr...

    How stars travel the Milky Way: Map provides the first evidence of stellar migration in our galaxy

    • Created using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III, it shows how a third of stars in our galaxy have changed orbit 
    • Scientists studied 100,000 stars to reveal their motions, locations and compositions of stars over four years
    • The map reveals how stars tend to migrate radially, moving closer or farther from the galactic center with time

    Nearly a third of the stars in our own galaxy have dramatically changed their orbits.

    This is according to a new map of the Milky Way that provides the first clear evidence of migration of stars throughout our galaxy.

    The study could provide astronomers with a new understanding of how stars are formed and travel throughout the Milky Way.

    This map of the Milky Way reveals how stellar orbits can change. It shows two pairs of stars (marked as red and blue) in which each pair started in the same orbit, and then one star in the pair changed orbits. The star marked as red has completed its move into a new orbit, while the star marked in blue is still moving. Nearly a third of the stars in our own galaxy are known to have changed their orbits

    This map of the Milky Way reveals how stellar orbits can change. It shows two pairs of stars (marked as red and blue) in which each pair started in the same orbit, and then one star in the pair changed orbits. The star marked as red has completed its move into a new orbit, while the star marked in blue is still moving. Nearly a third of the stars in our own galaxy are known to have changed their orbits

    The map was created using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III (SDSS) which studied 100,000 stars over four years.

    'We were able to measure the properties of nearly 70,000 stars in our galaxy for this particular study,' said Donald Schneider, an astronomy professor at Penn State University.

    'This exercise can be described as galactic archaeology.

    'These data reveal the locations, motions, and compositions of the stars, which provide insights into their formation and their history.'

    'In our modern world, many people move far away from their birthplaces, sometimes halfway around the world,' said Michael Hayden of New Mexico State University (NMSU), the lead author of the new study.

    'Now we're finding the same is true of stars in our galaxy. About 30 per cent of the stars in our galaxy have traveled a long way from where they were born.'

    The study shows how stars tend to migrate radially, moving closer or farther from the galactic center with time. This map, which was not part of the study, charts 219 million stars in the Milky Way in an incredible new map, which is the largest of its kind ever produced

    The study shows how stars tend to migrate radially, moving closer or farther from the galactic center with time. This map, which was not part of the study, charts 219 million stars in the Milky Way in an incredible new map, which is the largest of its kind ever produced

    The key to creating and interpreting this new map is measuring the elements in the atmosphere of each star.

    'From the chemical composition of a star, we can learn its ancestry and life history,' Hayden said.

    The chemical information comes from spectra, detailed measurements of how much light the star gives off at different wavelengths.

    Spectra show prominent lines that correspond to elements and compounds. Reading the spectral lines of a star can tell astronomers the chemicals the star is made of.

    'Stellar spectra show us that the chemical makeup of our galaxy is constantly changing,' said Jon Holtzman, an astronomer at NMSU who was involved in the study.

    'Stars create heavier elements in their cores, and when the stars die, those heavier elements go back into the gas from which the next stars form.'




  • Nancy Lieder

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/our-solar-system-may-have-had-a...

    Hint hint another planets in our solar system, another BIG one, another one that zinged out into space and does not go round and round the Sun.

  • K Tonkin

    http://home.bt.com/news/science-news/dont-freak-out-but-scientists-...

    Scientists think octopuses 'might be aliens' after DNA study

    Their genetic code is so strange that researchers think they might be something else altogether.

    Not to send you into a meltdown or anything but octopuses are basically ‘aliens’ – according to scientists.

    Researchers have found a new map of the octopus genetic code that is so strange that it could be actually be an “alien”.

    The first whole cephalopod genome sequence shows a striking level of complexity with 33,000 protein-coding genes identified – more than in a human.

    Not only that, the octopus DNA is highly rearranged – like cards shuffled and reshuffled in a pack – containing numerous so-called “jumping genes” that can leap around the genome.

    “The octopus appears to be utterly different from all other animals, even other molluscs, with its eight prehensile arms, its large brain and its clever problem-solving abilities,” said US researcher Dr Clifton Ragsdale, from the University of Chicago.

    “The late British zoologist Martin Wells said the octopus is an alien. In this sense, then, our paper describes the first sequenced genome from an alien.”

    The scientists sequenced the genome of the California two-spot octopus in a study published in the journal Nature.

    They discovered unique genetic traits that are likely to have played a key role in the evolution of characteristics such as the complex nervous system and adaptive camouflage.

    Analysis of 12 different tissues revealed hundreds of octopus-specific genes found in no other animal, many of them highly active in structures such as the brain, skin and suckers.

    The scientists estimate that the two-spot octopus genome contains 2.7 billion base pairs – the chemical units of DNA – with long stretches of repeated sequences.

    And although the genome is slightly smaller than a human’s, it is packed with more genes.

    Reshuffling was a key characteristic of the creature’s genetic make-up. In most species, cohorts of certain genes tend to be close together on the double-helix DNA molecule.

    A gene is a region of DNA that contains the coded instructions for making a protein.

    In the octopus, however, there are no such groupings of genes with related functions. For instance, Hox genes – which control body plan development – cluster together in almost all animals but are scattered throughout the octopus genome.

    It was as if the octopus genome had been “put into a blender and mixed”, said co-author Caroline Albertin, also from the University of Chicago.

  • KM

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3214101/Could-parts-...

    Holiday hotspots could be devastated by a Mediterranean tsunami. Maps reveal 130 million lives at risk from once-a-century phenomenon

    • Scientists modelled the effect of earthquakes off coasts of Sicily and Crete 
    • Large tsunami waves would spread across the Mediterranean in minutes
    • The say up to 1.5 sq miles (3.8sq km) of Crete would be left under the water
    • Large areas of densely populated coastline would be hit by the waves

    A large tsunami in the Mediterranean could engulf many popular holiday hotspots and threaten the lives of 130 million people living along the sea's busy coastlines, a new study has revealed.

    Researchers examining the impact of earthquakes off the north coast of Africa have simulated the impact of the devastating waves one might trigger.

    They found that if an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 hit off the coasts of eastern Sicily in Italy and southern Crete in Greece, it would leave large areas of the coastline under water.

    The animation above shows how an earthquake off the coast of the Greek island of Crete would send a devastating tsunami out across the Mediterranean with little warning (Credit: Samaras et al/ Ocean Science)

    The research suggests some of the most densely populated parts of coastline in the region, many of which are popular holiday destinations, would be hit by the huge waves.

    Their model additionally found that almost 1.5 square miles (3.8 sq km) of Crete would be lost to the ocean while the steeper cliff faces of Sicily would mean just 0.2 square miles (0.5 sq km) would be lost.

    The Greek islands, which are popular with tourists and the coastline of Peloponnese would be particularly badly hit. 

    Researchers warn that while tsunamis in the Mediterranean are rare they tend to happen around once a century.

    EUROPE'S BRUSH WITH TSUNAMIS 

    Tsunamis - the devastatingly huge waves caused by underwater earthquakes - are usually associated with coastlines of Japan or the Indian Ocean.

    But new research proves that massive tidal waves sparked by seismic activity have also ravaged European shores in the past - and could be repeated.

    Scientists from the University of Portsmouth found geological evidence that tsunami waves have swept over Malta's coastline - rising to up to 66ft (20 metres) above sea level in some places.

    They identified 70-ton boulders inland that had been picked up from the seabed before being carried along by the huge waves and dumped far inland.

    Studies of neighbouring coastlines show there has been a major tsunami, on average, every 400 years, thought to be linked to earthquakes beneath Mount Etna in Sicily, Italy.

    The north-east coast is now Malta's most densely populated region and if a similar sized wave struck today, it could threaten thousands of people, experts are warning.

    Many residents and holidaymakers live by or visit the north-eastern coasts, where the towns are built right up to the edge of the shoreline.

    And they say larger earthquakes could trigger even more devastating waves, like the one that hit off the coast of Crete in 365AD with a magnitude of between 8 and 8.5.

    The resulting tsunami destroyed ancient cities in Greece, Italy and Egypt, killing some 5,000 people in Alexandria alone.

    More recently, an earthquake of magnitude 7 hit the Messina region in Italy in 1908, causing a tsunami that killed thousands, with waves exceeding 33ft (10 metres) in height.

    Dr Achilleas Samaras, an engineer specialising in wave dynamics at the University of Bologna in Italy and lead author of the study, said: 'We wanted to find out how coastal areas would be affected by tsunamis in a region that is not only the most active in the Mediterranean in terms of seismicity and tectonic movements, but has also experienced numerous tsunami events in the past.

    'The main gap in relevant knowledge in tsunami modelling is what happens when tsunami waves approach the nearshore and run inland.

    'Although the simulated earthquake-induced tsunamis are not small, there has been a recorded history of significantly larger events, in terms of earthquake magnitude and mainshock areas, taking place in the region.

    'Our simulations could be used to help public authorities and policy makers create a comprehensive database of tsunami scenarios in the Mediterranean, identify vulnerable coastal regions for each scenario, and properly plan their defence.'

    The Mediterranean sits on the boundary where the African tectonic plate slides under the Eurasian plates.

    The researchers studied the impact of an earthquake along the boundary between the African and Eursian plates that run under the Mediterranean Sea. They focused on quakes off the coast of Crete and Sicily, as can be seen in the map above, which shows the boundary of the plates

    The researchers studied the impact of an earthquake along the boundary between the African and Eursian plates that run under the Mediterranean Sea. They focused on quakes off the coast of Crete and Sicily, as can be seen in the map above, which shows the boundary of the plates



  • Ryan X

    Is there a Planet X, a ‘massive perturber,’ hidden beyond Pluto?

    "So then, how would such a big planet get way out there? Brown hypothesizes that, long ago, the planet formed closer to the sun, and might have been the core of what would have become a giant planet like Jupiter or Saturn. But then it could have been ejected toward the outer solar system through gravitational interactions with other giant planets."


    "If this Planet X is out there, why can't we see it directly? Because it's very far away and commensurately faint. It could be at least 200 Astronomical Units from the sun -- meaning 200 times farther from the sun than is the Earth. These hypothetical planets, dwarf or otherwise, don't generate their own light, and can only be seen through the feeble reflected light of the sun."

  • Starr DiGiacomo

    https://twclark66.wordpress.com/2015/09/10/pope-francis-warns-of-he...

    Pope Francis Warns of “Hellfire From Above” Ahead of U.S. Visit

    September 08, 2015

    VATICAN CITY – During a sermon at Saint Peter’s Square on Sunday, Pope Francis spoke of a “forthcoming event in which the earth will be consumed by hellfire from above” and asked Christians around the world to absolve themselves of sin in the days and weeks ahead.

    In a statement released by the Vatican Tuesday morning, Pope Francis, who is scheduled to arrive in the United States on September 22nd, announced that he has been visited “on three occasions by heavenly beings” who, most recently, have warned of an “impending crisis” that could have dire consequences for life on earth.

    The Pope is set to attend a meeting of the UN General Assembly on September 25th, at the United Nations building in New York where he will confer with world leaders, including President Barack Obama and Russian president Vladimir Putin, to discuss defensive options.

    On Tuesday morning NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg confirmed that he has made arrangements to attend the General Assembly. “I spoke with the Holy See and [UN] Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon via video conference Sunday evening,” Stoltenberg told the Associated Press. “NATO is working closely with our counterparts around the globe to explore every viable recourse available.”

    Details surrounding the Vatican’s extraterrestrial visitors are sparse but a British military intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the situation, told The Guardian that “the entities were described as peaceful by nature.” However, the official said, their stance on the matter was passive in that “they maintain a policy of neutrality” in regards to interplanetary action by “other-worldly” forces.

    Pope Francis is scheduled to attend a private meeting with President Obama at the White House on the morning of September 23rd. The Pope will visit three cities, including Washington, D.C., during his six-day visit to the United States. He is expected to address a number of topics including same-sex marriage and immigration.

  • Howard

    Surprising summary of PX history, cover-up and effects on Earth, yet not without considerable misinformation and with no mention of ZT.

    The Niburu Planet X System and Its Potential Impacts on Our Solar System

    http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-niburu-planet-x-system-and-its-pot...

  • Jorge Mejia

    Dawn (NASA Mission) Takes a Closer Look at Occator (Ceres Dwarf Planet's crater) 
    September 9, 2015 

    This image taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows Occator crater on Ceres, home to a collection of intriguing bright spots.

    The bright spots are much brighter than the rest of Ceres' surface, and tend to appear overexposed in most images. This view is a composite of two images of Occator: one using a short exposure that captures the detail in the bright spots, and one where the background surface is captured at normal exposure.

    The images were obtained by Dawn during the mission's High Altitude Mapping Orbit (HAMO) phase, from which the spacecraft imaged the surface at a resolution of about 450 feet (140 meters) per pixel.

    Article:
    http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA19889

    Photo Gallery:
    http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/index.php?search=Ceres

  • Starr DiGiacomo

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=60&v=b3XjZEsaBNk

    Published on Sep 18, 2015

    Pope Francis has called on people of all faiths to come together to take action on climate change and protect “our common home.” Will you join him?

    www.nextgenclimate.org/stand-with-pope-f­rancis

  • casey a

    Advanced Ligo: Labs 'open their ears' to the cosmos

    Labs in the US states of Washington and Louisiana began "listening" on Friday for the gravitational waves that are predicted to flow through the Earth when violent events occur in space.

    The Advanced Ligo facilities have just completed a major upgrade.

    Scientists believe this will now give them the sensitivity needed to pick up what should be a very subtle signal...

    The Ligo labs first began hunting for gravitational waves in 2002. They were then switched off in 2010 to undergo their more than $200m upgrade.

    Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34298363

  • casey a

    White House Says President Obama and Vladimir Putin Will Meet Next Week

    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/25/world/europe/white-house-to-annou...

    (Putin is in New York for the U.N. General Assembly. And Chinese leader, Xi Jinping is over for a state visit - http://multimedia.scmp.com/xi-jinping-us-visit/

  • Howard

    Dalai Lama in U.S. for 'Checkup' as World Leaders Gather at U.N. (Sep 24)

    Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama was in the United States for a medical checkup on Thursday, and he had no plans to meet world leaders gathering in New York for the annual United Nations general assembly, officials at his office in India said.

    The Nobel Peace Laureate is not ill, but was going to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, for a yearly health check-up, his secretary Tenzin Taklha said in an email.

    China's President Xi Jinping is also in the United States, where he will make his U.N. debut as China's leader.

    The Dalai Lama's trip also coincides with the visit of Pope Francis, who met with President Barack Obama and is scheduled to address the United Nations on Friday.

    Source

    http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/09/24/uk-dalai-lama-usa-idUKKCN0...

  • Starr DiGiacomo

    http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/john-boehner-stepping-down-oc...

    Reports: Speaker John Boehner To Step Down In October

    Speaker John Boehner plans to resign from Congress in late October, the New York Times reported on Friday.

  • Sandor Daranyi

    Found an interesting video from UNICEF..

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5e85kuqwQ0

  • Howard

    NASA sends space fans into frenzy with news of a "major announcement" on Sept 28

    http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/is-it-aliens-nasa-sends-s...

  • Kris H

  • Nancy Lieder

    Re the light show: they are putting up chemicals in the upper atmosphere, supposedly for some study. and a byproduct of this will be many colors in the skies. I find this suspicious, as rainbow type displays are much in evidence lately, from the grease in the tail of Nibiru/Planet X. See most recent Issue 470 of the newsletter, Signs in the Skies section. I think they are going to use this stuff as an excuse, like blame the Sun for the EMP. It is part of a continuing coverup.

    "Tonight, NASA says it’s ejecting four different payloads of a mix of barium and strontium, creating “a cloud with a mixture of blue-green and red color.” Here’s an example of a barium release provided by NASA; on the upper left you can see the barium’s “ionized component, which has become elongated along the Earth’s magnetic field lines.”"

  • Ryan X

  • Starr DiGiacomo

    A good comment on FB re: this:

    I have a BAD feeling about this......... Such as, I bet they found a big one heading this way, big enough to kill a large chunk of the planet, and nothing they can do about it... SO, turning off this program would make it easier for "plausible deniability" to be in effect by declaring, "Since we turned off this program, we didn't see it coming."

    http://inhomelandsecurity.com/nasa-wakes-up-saving-us-from-killer-a...

    NASA Wakes Up: ‘Saving Us From Killer Asteroids’ Is A Waste

  • Scott

    Get Ready for an Earthquake, NASA Tells L.A.

    Source: http://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/get-ready-for-an-earthq...

    Los Angeles residents better start making their earthquake-preparedness kits — scientists say there’s a 99 percent chance that a quake will rock the city sometime before 2018. (earthquake-preparedness kits — scientists say there’s a 99 percent ...)

    Using radar and GPS to measure the likelihood of an earthquake, experts from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena predict a 5.0-magnitude shaker — or bigger — for the L.A. area. After the La Habra quake in spring 2014, there’s apparently enough strain on the L.A. basin to produce an even larger earthquake with the same epicenter just 20 miles southeast of downtown, JPL geophysicist Dr. Andrea Donnellan told CBS Los Angeles.

    Although the earth isn’t expected to literally crack open, “there’s enough energy stored to produce about a magnitude 6.1 to 6.3 earthquake,” Donnellan says. 

    No injuries were reported in the moderate 5.1-magnitude La Habra shaker, but an earthquake with a magnitude of 6 or higher on the Richter scale is considered “strong” and able to cause a lot of damage in heavily populated areas — like L.A.

    Setting of the La Habra quake. Red dots show the magnitude 5.1 main shock, magnitude 4.1 aftershock and magnitude 5.4 Chino quake in 2008. Relocated aftershocks are green dots. Modeled faults are in brown, with the heavier reddish brown line denoting the bottom of the fault and labeled with italics. Courtesy of NASA/JPL-CaltechSetting of the La Habra quake. Red dots show the magnitude 5.1 main shock, magnitude 4.1 aftershock and magnitude 5.4 Chino quake in 2008. Relocated aftershocks are green dots. Modeled faults are in brown, with the heavier reddish brown line denoting the bottom of the fault and labeled with italics.© Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech Setting of the La Habra quake. Red dots show the magnitude 5.1 main shock, magnitude 4.1 aftershock and magnitude 5.4 Chino quake in 2008. Relocated aftershocks are green dots. Modeled faults are in brown, with the heavier reddish brown line denoting the bottom of the fault and labeled with italics.

  • Starr DiGiacomo

    http://www.theshorthorn.com/news/u-n-report-insects-are-environment...

    U.N. report: Insects are environmentally-friendly food

    Although many find them scary or disgusting, bugs can be nutritional.

    Eating bugs may be an environmentally friendly food for the future, according to a United Nations report released in 2013, describing the many benefits of farming and eating bugs. For example, pest bugs can be harvested from farmer’s crops and eaten, which means that not only will the crops be safe, but the bugs can provide additional nutrition.

    Crickets, for example, have 28 grams of protein per 100 grams. Cows, for comparison, have about 20 grams of protein per 100. Bugs also do not release methane, which is a greenhouse gas that damages the climate by absorbing heat. Although cows are not the main source of methane pollution, they do contribute to it.

    “Insects are everywhere, and they reproduce quickly. They have high growth and feed conversion rates and a low environmental footprint,” according to the report.

    Some cultures already eat bugs, according to the report. Mexico has a long tradition of eating the local grasshoppers and locusts, such as grasshopper tacos, and many dishes in China involve bugs, including ant soup and fried scorpions. In addition, certain traditional African cultures eat bugs.

    “There’s food, not food, and not food to me,” anthropology professor Julie Adkins said.

    But, currently, most U.S. bug-eating is limited to accidents, dares and novelty items. One company, Hotlix, provides novelty candies, including scorpion lollipops and flavored crickets. It was founded by Larry Peterman after he was inspired by the tequila brands that put worms in the bottoms of their drinks.

    “People are already eating insects in widely popular foods, such as chocolate, ketchup, peanut butter, wine and many others,” Peterman said. “Hotlix is simply open about it.”

    They may seem disgusting now, but the future is open, and this is not the first time people have changed their minds about what is edible.

    In the 1800s, lobsters were considered sea trash, in part because they were not overfished and were still plentiful. There was a large protest when certain jails fed their prisoners lobster. It was considered inhumane. But, during the Great Depression, it was one of the few unrationed foods available, and so it became more widely consumed, according to an article from Pacific Standard Magazine. Today, lobster is considered a delicacy.

    “It’s interesting how you can dry bugs out and flavor them,” said Connor Denney, a computer science freshman. “If I was raised to eat them, it wouldn’t seem as strange to me.”

  • KM

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3286908/Is-Planet-X-Mysteri...

    What is this strange fiery globe spotted off the coast of Florida? Conspiracy theorists claim it is the mythical ‘Planet X’ that will destroy the world

    • Conspiracy theorists say Planet X exists on edge of our solar system
    • They believe its gravitational pull could spell the end for humanity
    • But Nasa has dismissed these radical claims as an 'internet hoax' 
    • Some suggest video shows a solar mirage created by ice crystals

    A video has emerged that shows what some people believe is the mysterious 'Planet X'.

    Conspiracy theorists claim Planet X, also known as Nibiru, orbits at the edge of our solar system.

    They say its gravitational pull could spell the end for humanity by disrupting the flow of energy on Earth.

    Nasa has dismissed these claims as an 'internet hoax' and says 'there is no factual basis for claims' given astronomers are yet to spot the so-called planet.

    Scroll down for video 

    A video has emerged that appears to show what some people believe is the mysterious ‘Planet X’. Conspiracy theorists believe Planet X, also known as Nibiru, orbits at the edge of our solar system 

    A video has emerged that appears to show what some people believe is the mysterious 'Planet X'. Conspiracy theorists believe Planet X, also known as Nibiru, orbits at the edge of our solar system 

    Can you work out what this bizarre object is in the sky?
    WHAT IS PLANET X? 

    Planet X, also known as Nibiru, is a hypothesised planet on the edge of our solar system.

    Conspiracy theorists believe the gravitational influence of the 'rogue planet' disrupted the orbits of other planets hundreds of years ago.

    They claim the next disruptive passage into the inner solar system could happen at any time.

    Some claims that this 'planet' is sending 'plasmatic energy particles' through our solar system.

    The flow of energy will disrupt the 'core flows' of the Earth and trigger catastrophic changes in Earth's climate.

    They claim, since 1996, we have already been feeling the disruptive effects of the inbound rogue Planet X.

    Conspiracy theorists often blame natural disasters and freak weather patterns on the planet.

    'Nibiru and other stories about wayward planets are an internet hoax,' Nasa has said. 'Obviously, it does not exist.'

    But despite this, the latest video has set conspiracy forums ablaze once again.

    It was taken on the off the coast of Florida by Melissa Huffman noticed a strange fiery globe seemingly burning between the clouds.

    'Just look at that planet beaming and shining right now, somebody tells me what it is', she says.

    The video seems to show a bright circular shape poking out above the sunset, sparking rumours that it may be the mythical planet.

    Posted 11 days ago, the video has already had 95,000 views, with some astrologists suggesting the planet like shape may be Nibiru.

    Commenting on the video one user wrote: 'It's definitely Nibiru. It's time to freak out the makers are coming.'

    Another said: 'Me and many folk with me have been waiting for this to show up for years. Ancient records state that once The Destroyer is 'visible to the world', we have 40 days to prepare.'

    Conspiracy theorists believe gravitational influence of the 'rogue planet' had disrupted the orbits of other planets hundreds of years ago.

    They claim the next disruptive passage into the inner solar system could happen at any time.

    Some claims that this 'planet' is sending 'plasmatic energy particles' through our solar system.

     

  • Mark

    Also reported in the Daily Mirror:

    Mystery 'orb' spotted above the sun - but what on earth is it?

    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/mystery-orb-spotted-above-s...

    A video of a mystery orb spotted hovering above the sun has gone viral as viewers have been speculating wildly about its origin.

    Melissa Huffman captured the footage at the Sanibel causeway in Florida.

    The footage has had more than 87,900 views since it was uploaded to YouTube on October 19.

    Melissa claims she was with a friend at the time, who also saw the mystery orb.
    She wrote in a YouTube comment: "I was on Sanibel causeway, little rock, and I did freak out.

    "I have been studying the sky. It's strange."

    Theories about strange light have ranged from the Nibiru cataclysm to a burning red dwarf star.

    Another viewer added: "If I saw this in person, I would freak out.
    "I have watched the sky for decades: telescopes, cameras, binoculars.

    "NEVER has there been anything that size/scale next to the sun! This is NOT Venus or Saturn..and most definitely not a lens flare."

    Others disagreed: "It's a reflection of the sun in the upper atmosphere. Almost like a mirage. It's not very common but loads of video evidence exists."

  • Nancy Lieder

    Oh wow. This sentence: "Theories about strange light have ranged from the Nibiru cataclysm to a burning red dwarf star." directly relates to the top of the search list for Nibiru in Google. Are they priming the pump for ZT or what?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibiru_cataclysm

  • Howard

    Enormous 8,000-year-old Earthworks Discovered in Kazakhstan (Oct 30)

    New satellite images from NASA have revealed unusual, massive patterns on the Earth’s surface. The geometric shapes are located in Kazakhstan, and are estimated to be up to 8,000 years old.

    The massive earthwork patterns called the Steppe Geoglyphs were originally discovered by a Kazakh economist when he was browsing Google Earth in 2007. When browsing through an otherwise empty Central Asian landscape, Dimitriy Dey found intriguing markings in the soil.

    But the study of these mysterious constructs is ramping up, and even NASA has taken an interest. Two weeks ago, the space agency released clear satellite photographs of the figures from about 430 miles in the sky.

    “I’ve never seen anything like this; I found it remarkable,” Compton J. Tucker, a senior biospheric scientist for NASA who provided the archived images, told The New York Times.

    The images show colossal squares, crosses, swastikas and rings, some of which reach over a kilometer in length. The oldest of these geometric shapes are estimated to have been made 8,000 years ago – over three millenniums older than the Egyptian pyramids.

    The patterns are formed from uniformly circular mounds of dirt three feet high and thirty feet wide. There are at least 260 of the mounds, and they were described last year at archaeology in Istanbul as a previously unstudied phenomenon.

    University of Winnipeg archaeologist Persis B. Clarkson says that constructions like these and the similar Nazca lines in Peru are challenging prevailing views of early people and nomads.

    “The idea that foragers could amass the numbers of people necessary to undertake large-scale projects – like creating the Kazakhstan geoglyphs – has caused archaeologists to deeply rethink the nature and timing of sophisticated large-scale human organization as one that predates settled and civilized societies,” Dr. Clarkson said.

    Source

    https://www.rt.com/usa/320195-nasa-releases-images-of-enormous/

  • Scott

    National Space Weather Action Plan released by White House

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/fina...

    PDF link found here: 

    "The devastating potential of an extreme solar storm and what the White House is doing about it"

    http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/weather/the-devastating-potential-of-...

    ...The White House, realizing that an extreme solar storm could jeopardize the nation’s vitality and security, released a strategy and multi-agency plan on Thursday to prepare for and coordinate responses to the space weather threat.


    “The plan was motivated by a recognition that we need a cohesive national network to build resilience [to space weather] and to determine what we need to know,” said Bill Murtagh, assistant director for space weather at White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). “This is a real and present danger, this is a real threat.”


    The plan’s development, co-chaired by NOAA, the Department of Homeland Security and OSTP, was the work of members from seven Cabinet-level departments as well as 13 agencies and service branches.


    Murtagh said the need for the plan arose over time as government officials as well as constituents from the electric power, telecommunications and emergency management sectors became increasingly aware of the risks posed by space weather. ...

    See:

    EMP Denial

    http://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/emp-denial

    EMP Walloping

    http://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/draft-zetatalk-newsletter-...