https://www.rt.com/news/320397-jupiter-ejected-fifth-planet/

There was a fifth giant planet in the solar system, but it was ejected after a close encounter with Jupiter, a computer model made by Canadian astronomers suggests. They studied the orbits of Jovian moons for proof. The icy giant’s current whereabouts are unknown. Apparently it joined the estimated hundreds or thousands (or even billion) of so-called rogue planets traveling across the interstellar space of the Milky Way.

Small, dim stars could still support life 

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/3r32fv/small_dim_stars_...

http://news.sciencemag.org/space/2015/10/small-dim-stars-could-stil...

Andrea of USAEBN found this:

Commercial for Mex city

Half through clear Double Sun at the 5 o'clock position (not a Lens Flare)
Then hidden later in the ad behind a building
The brightness is turned down on the video and pics, captured live on HD TV

CNN 7:46p Central
Anderson Cooper 360

NASA Announcement: Earth May Be experiencing A Pole Shift

Quote:

The big question is whether V774104 sweeps inwards from its present location, like Eris, or outwards, like the objects known as 2012 VP113 and Sedna.

Unexplained history

These bodies are currently slightly closer in than Eris, but investigations of their orbits show they will reach far deeper into space, out to 66 billion km and 140 billion km, respectively.

Models for Solar System formation suggest that such objects were probably not created in these weird, eccentric orbits.

One explanation is that they have been perturbed gravitationally and pulled on to their strange trajectories by a passing planet - perhaps one that was expelled from our Solar System early in its history.

Some scientists even speculate that such objects could have been stolen from a star that formed from the same "nursery" of gas and dust as our Sun 4.6 billion years ago.

From 'Most distant' Solar System object spied (Nov 11, 2015)
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34787422

Newly Discovered Object Revives Speculation of Planet X - The likel...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3316249/An-orange-GL...

An orange GLOW could guide us towards alien life: Researchers finds mists could be key to finding habitable planets

• Research found faraway planet with orange atmospheric haze
• Planet could develop into the next Earth or currently hold life on it 
• Haze is similar to the haze that once covered the cooled young earth
• Researchers studied Earth from 2 billion years ago to learn if theory is true

An atmospheric haze around a planet could show that the world is potentially habitable, or even be a sign of life, researchers have found.

Researchers analysed data from Earth, and found at atmospheric haze once covered our cooling planet. 

This orange shroud could suggest the planet is potentially habitable or that there is life already there. 

An atmospheric haze, which is similar to the one that covered the once covered the cooled young Earth, was seen hovering over a planet in the distance. This orange shroud could suggest the planet is potentially habitable or that there is life already there

University of Washington doctoral student Giada Arney and co-authors chose to analyse Earth in its Archean era, about 2.5 billion years back, because it is 'the most alien planet we have geochemical data for'.

Using the Earth as a proxy for hypothetical exoplanets in computer modelling to simulate what such worlds might be similar and under what circumstance they might be suitable to support life has been a common method among Astronomers. 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3317451/Tsunami-deva...

Tsunami devastated Europe 8,150 years ago: Huge waves swept hundreds of miles down the North Sea after the last Ice Age

• A huge landslide under the Norwegian Sea triggered the powerful tsunami
• Waves of up to 65 feet high hit Iceland, Greenland, Norway and Britain
• The tsunami was so powerful it swept all the way down the North Sea

It was a time when stone-age hunter gatherers were spreading across northern Europe and into Britain as the glaciers of the last ice age retreated.

But just as these mesolithic tribes were settling in these newly uncovered areas a giant tsunami triggered by an underwater landslide off the coast of Norway devastated large parts of Europe.

Waves of up to 65 feet (20 metres) are thought to have smashed into Iceland, Greenland, Norway Scotland and parts of England's northern coastline.

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A huge landslide of Ice Age sediment under the Norwegian Sea 8,150 years ago (illustrated) produced a tsunami so powerful it swept hundreds of miles down the North Sea and created waves of up to 65 feet high

Scientists have now uncovered evidence that shows just how powerful these huge waves were and the huge area that they effected.

Sediment discovered on the south west coast of Denmark shows the waves spread out across the Norwegian Sea and penetrated deep into the North Sea.

COLLAPSE OF VOLCANO TRIGGERED MEGA TSUNAMI 73,000 YEARS AGO

A tsunami of biblical proportions triggered by the sudden collapse of a volcano generated a wave nearly 1,000ft high, scientists have discovered.

The event occurred 73,000 years ago in the Cape Verde Islands off west Africa, long before there were any coastal cities that might have been flattened by the deluge.

But some experts fear a similar giant collapse could present a real threat today, especially around volcanic islands.

The ancient collapse occurred at Fogo, one of the world's largest and most active island volcanoes that today towers more than 9,000ft (2,743m) above sea level. 

An estimated 40 cubic miles (167 cubic kilometres) of rock fell into the ocean at once, resulting in an 800ft (244m) high tsunami that engulfed an island more than 30 miles away (48km).

By comparison, the largest known recent tsunamis, which devastated Indian ocean coasts in 2004 and eastern Japan in 2011, attained maximum heights of around 100ft (30m). 

Waves of at least six feet tall (2m) would have been powerful enough to sweep people off their feet if they had been unfortunate enough to be standing on the Danish coast at the time.

Writing in the journal Geology, Dr Mikkel Freurgaard, a geologist at the University of Copenhagen and his colleagues who conducted the study, said: 'Our results demonstrate that the Storegga tsunami propagated 900–1000 km (559-621 miles) across the shallow continental shelf of the North Sea.

'This implies that the Storegga slide tsunami probably impacted the entire coast of the southeastern North Sea.'

The tsunami is thought to have been triggered when a 120 mile long stretch of sediments that had accumulated off the coast of Norway during the Ice Age broke free of the continental shelf and plunged into the depths 8,150 years ago.

The area of seabed is thought to have been roughly the samne size as Iceland and was up to 111 feet thick.

This huge underwater landslide, known as the Storegga slide, sent waves out in all directions, causing huge tsunamis to sweep over the coastline of Norway and Iceland.

The waves also raced south engulfing the Faroe Island, Orkney and large parts of the coastline of mainland Britain.

Previous studies, however, have found that friction from the shallow seabed in the North Sea would have dissipated the tsunami's energy and so doubted it would have reached far down the west coast of mainland Europe.

The latest findings, however, which are published in the journal Geology, have shown that sediment on the island of Rømø on the west coast of Denmark, contain material carried by the powerful tsunami waves.

At the time sea levels would have been 65 feet (20m) lower than they are currently and the area was covered by a large lake.

Dr Freurgaard told Science Nordic: 'At some point there was a big inundation of sea water, which dumped a lot of marine sand at the bottom of the lack, along with (organic) material from the edges of the lake and the lake bottom.'

Nicolai Kliem, head of the sea and ice section at the Danish Meteorological Institute in Copenhagen who was not involved in the study, added: 'The fact the tsunami reached Denmark suggests that it was very strong.' 

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Tsunamis are one of the most devastating forces of nature and have claimed thousands of lives in recent years. The picture above shows a tsunami wave crashing into a street in Miyako City in northeast Japan following the 8.9 magnitude earthquake that struck the area in 2011

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President Obama brought up "Roswell and the aliens and UFOs" in 

President Obama and Bill Simmons: The GQ Interview (11/17/15)

http://www.gq.com/story/president-obama-bill-simmons-interview-gq-m...

Have you ever said, “Give me the JFK-assassination files, I want to read them. Give me all the secret stuff”?

I gotta tell you, it’s a little disappointing. People always ask me about Roswell and the aliens and UFOs, and it turns out the stuff going on that’s top secret isn’t nearly as exciting as you expect. In this day and age, it’s not as top secret as you’d think.

3,500-Year-Old Sunken Town Discovered In Croatia

Archeologists in Croatia announced their discovery of a 3,500-year-old sunken town in Adriatic Sea near Zadar, a southern coastal city. The ancient settlement and port was found in the sea between the islands of Ricula and Galesnjak in the Pasman Channel in 2014.

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/110019/20151125/3-500-year-old-su...

King Tutankhamun's tomb: Evidence grows for hidden chamber

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34952947

Previous ZT on why many mysterious deaths occured for those who stumbled across King Tut's tomb: http://zetatalk.com/ning/25ma2013.htm

Yahoo NEWS ! UFOlogist claims he’s spotted a gigantic Martian rodent in Curisotiy rover footage . https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/ufologist-claims-spotted-gigantic-mart...

Not all pre-announcement signs are for an increased disclosure, some are the opposite:

Young people who question the Government or media may be extremists, officials tell parents

A leaflet distributed as part of an anti-extremism drive says these signs are 'specific' to radicalisation

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/young-people-who-ques...

Child protection officials been criticised after warning parents that young people who take issue with government policy or question what they are told in the media may have been radicalised by extremists.

A leaflet drawn up by an inner-city child safeguarding board warns that “appearing angry about government policies, especially foreign policies” is a sign “specific to radicalisation”.

Parents and carers have also been advised by the safeguarding children board in the London Borough of Camden that “showing a mistrust of mainstream media reports and a belief in conspiracy theories” could be a sign that children are being groomed by extremists.

Bella Sankey, policy director at the campaign group Liberty, criticised the leaflet.

“Children should be encouraged to take an interest in politics and think critically about what they see in the media, not deemed suspect for so doing,” she said.

Astronomers question claim of super planet found at solar system’s ...

New papers say "Super Earth" may orbit the Sun at six times the distance of Pluto.

Scientists and amateur astronomers have long been fascinated by the possibility of a "Planet X" at the edge of the solar system that may explain some apparent anomalies in the orbits of planets such as Neptune and Uranus. However, in recent years, astronomers have largely ruled out the possibility of a large, unseen planet far beyond the orbit of Pluto.

Research groups from Sweden and Mexico have now submitted pre-prints of two research papers to arXiv (here and here) that claim to have discovered a massive object at the edge of the solar system. Using observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Chile during 2014 and 2015, the astronomers spied "a new blackbody point source" that appears to be moving in conjunction with the Alpha Centauri star system, about 4.3 light years from Earth.

Did The Solar System Just Gain Two New Worlds?

A pair of scientific papers suggest that the ALMA observatory may have detected 2 new 'planet-scale' objects associated with the outer realms of the solar system. But should we be awed or skeptical?

:D

Longer days ahead: Melting ice caps causing Earth's rotation to slow down, says study

Much has been reported about how global climate change is causing polar ice caps to melt, which results in rising sea levels predicted to inundate entire countries.

A new study conducted by researchers from the Harvard University, however, revealed a quite unexpected result of melting glaciers: the slowing down of the Earth's rotation, which means longer days.

The study, published this week in the journal Science Advances, concluded that shrinking glaciers are affecting the speed of the Earth's rotation and how our planet is tilted on its own axis by redistributing all the once-frozen water around the world.

When the ice caps melt, the water shifts from the poles toward the equator, causing the Earth to have extra girth or a wider midsection. This ultimately leads to a slower rotating planet.

Physics Professor Mathieu Dumberry of the University of Alberta, a co-author of the study, compared the Earth to a spinning figure skater.

He explained to CBC News that a spinning figure skater will slow down his or her circular movement if he or she extends the arms on both sides—much like how the Earth is slightly expanding due to the melting polar ice caps.

In total, the researchers calculated that a day on Earth has already been a millisecond longer over the past century due to this phenomenon.

Dumberry explained that they were able to reach this figure by using the traditional way of identifying changes in the speed of the Earth's rotation: by looking at records of ancient eclipses recorded by civilisations such as the Babylonians.

To make a more conclusive observation, the research team also observed changes in the Earth's magnetic field.

"It's like a hamster in a wheel. The hamster runs in one direction and the wheel [turns] in the other. Earth's core has accelerated," Dumberry explained to CBC News. "It has been moving slightly faster in the past 3,000 years."

Source: christiantoday.com

Climate Change Is Making the Earth Wobble

As pollution from burning fossil fuels continues to heat the atmosphere, the world’s glaciers are melting at an accelerating rate. Scientists widely agree that this meltwater has been a major factor in raising global sea levels about seven inches over the 20th century.

The movement of all that water is affecting the Earth’s rotation, according to a study published Friday in the journal Science.

“If you are melting glaciers from high latitudes—in Alaska, Greenland, or Iceland—you move mass away from the pole, toward the equator, which slows the Earth down,” said Jerry Mitrovica, the study’s lead author and a Harvard geophysicist who specializes in studying sea level change. “The change in the distribution of the mass from the poles to lower latitudes also causes the rotation to wobble slightly, because it’s being redistributed unequally.”

That change in rotation added a microsecond to the course of a day over the 20th century.

The study showed that “glacier melt over the 20th century would have increased the duration of a day by maybe a millisecond,” said Mitrovica. While small, the change “can tell you something about how things are melting,” he said, and is a striking example of how human activities are altering Earth’s systems.

For the first time, researchers have mathematically detected glacier meltwater’s movement from higher altitudes to the ocean basins in the speed of the Earth’s rotation.

The finding is yet more proof that greenhouse gas emissions are having an enormous impact on the Earth’s climate. “This very subtle effect, Earth’s rotation, is a way to monitor how much ice sheets are melting and adds to how we are monitoring sea level rise,” Mitrovica said.

“And more important, it shows that even these very subtle effects support the scientific consensus that we’re affecting the climate, and that effect is accelerating,” he added.

In the study, Mitrovica and his colleagues updated and corrected how scientists calculate the known impacts on the Earth’s spin and axis resulting from the end of the last ice age. In the process, they may have solved a 13-year-old conundrum in earth science called “Munk’s enigma,” which asked why the influx of water from melting glaciers wasn’t apparent in measurements of the Earth’s rotation.

“It is an important additional tool in understanding the mass balance of ice sheets, and we need as many of those as we can get,” Mitrovica said. Source: news.yahoo.com

Monster asteroid which 'could cause earthquakes and volcanoes' will skim past Earth on Xmas Eve

Scientists now believe this asteroid, and some others, could be even bigger than calculated as it is thought part of their mass may have been shrouded in darkness

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/monster-asteroid-could-caus...$sitewide%20p$7

A colossal asteroid so big some claim its gravitational pull could cause earthquakes and volcanoes on Earth is set to skim past the planet on Christmas Eve...

The news may fuel rumours by conspiracy theorists that a mysterious Planet X four times the size of Jupiter will pass the Earth this month.

White House promises 'non-traditional' State of the Union (12/17/15)
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/500955da10a84d898c5e59086aaf10f1/whi...

The White House is promising President Barack Obama will deliver a "non-traditional" State of the Union address next month, eschewing the standard litany of policy proposals for a broader discussion on the challenges facing the country.

The format reflects the legislative reality for Obama's final year in office. Much of what the White House and the Republican-led Congress could realistically achieve in an election year is already underway, including discussions on criminal justice reform, and the ticking clock on Obama's presidency leaves little time to jumpstart major new initiatives.

The president is scheduled to deliver his last State of the Union on Jan. 12, less than three weeks before Americans begin voting in the presidential primaries.

In a briefing for reporters Thursday, White House officials said Obama's agenda for his last year in office includes securing congressional approval of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact, additional steps to address climate change, and bolstering gun control measures. The latter steps will be taken through executive action, though officials wouldn't say whether the measures would be ready in time for Obama's address to Congress.

Officials also did not commit to a timeline for sending lawmakers a long-delayed plan for closing the Guantanamo Bay detention center.

Rather than fade into the lame duck phase of his presidency, the White House said Obama is eager to use 2016 to take steps that drive the debate in the 2016 race. He also expects to be active on the campaign trail, stumping for the Democratic presidential nominee and other party candidates, the White House said.

An active campaign role for Obama would be a marked shift from the 2014 midterm elections, when he was marginalized by his party.

The White House said it's still possible the president could endorse in the Democratic primary, which is a two-way contest between front-runner Hillary Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, her closest challenger.

The reference above to "little time to jumpstart major new initiatives" is reminiscent of the ZT from the Q&A for November 21, 2015
http://www.zetatalk.com/ning/21no2015.htm

Given the state of the planet, with the wobble and Earth changes such as earthquakes and EMP affecting both man and his machinery increasing regularly, at what point are matters at rest enough for the announcement to have a safe place? There will be no such quiet time, no point when migrant distress or sociological restlessness has gone to sleep. No point when the crops are in and panic in the public will not increase the food shortages. Rioting will be on the increase. Demands from all quarters, the “have-nots” making demands on the “haves”, the threat of having a corrupt or short sighted nominee about to become President in the US. All will only increase. In short, the announcement team should just do it, without further delay.

Introducing the concept of moon swirls?

An international team of astronomers have discovered sharp symmetric features around a young double star, baffling scientists as to whether they are highly eccentric rings or two separate spiral arms in the disk around the star. Moreover, these features may have been caused by circumbinary planets interacting with the disk.

The observations were conducted in April 2015 as a part of the Search for Planets Orbiting Two Stars (SPOTS) program. One explanation is these structures are spiral arms that could be induced through gravitational instability or through the influence of a planet or binary companion.

Source

http://phys.org/news/2015-12-mysterious-sharp-symmetric-features-yo...

Nasa used Santa Claus as a codename for THREE UFOs spotted during the lunar landings, claims former employee

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3373636/Nasa-used-Sa...

• Claims to have walked into restricted area where she saw UFOs in pictures
• She says Nasa has airbrushed UFOs from thousands of pictures
• Claims Nasa has threatened people with their retirement if they speak

Three flying saucers were spotted on the moon during Nasa's lunar landings, according to the bizarre claims of a former Nasa contractor.
In a video testimony, Dona Hare says the space agency covered up a series of UFO sighting that they codenamed 'Santa Claus'.
Hare claims she was told by numerous sources, which she does not name, about three UFOs that landed shortly after one of the moon landings.
She does not specify when this took place, according to an article in Express.
'I walked into a restricted area of the photo lab where they developed film from the moon and other satellite pictures,' Hare recalls in the video.
'A gentleman pointed my attention to one area of this mosaic.'
'I believe they were satellite pictures, but I'm not sure.'
Hare describes seeing a round shadow at the correct angle with the sun shinning on the trees in the picture.
'What I knew he meant was, it was a UFO but he couldn't tell me,' she explains.
Not only is she accusing Nasa of hiding UFOs from the public, she also told the world the agency has doctored and obscured thousands of photos
She went on record to state the agency erases anomalies from pictures before selling them to the public.
During her time Nasa, she was employed as an illustrator and photographic slide technician, and received many awards for her work.
'I was amazed that they had a protocol in place for getting rid of UFOs in pictures,' says Hare, referring to the airbrushing.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3377378/Could-distan...

Could distant super-Earths host life? Huge pressures inside exoplanets may create 'impossible' compounds that make them more hospitable

• Super-Earth's are distant worlds many times heavier than our own planet 
• The interior of these rocky planets would generate extreme pressures
• Magnesium, silicon and oxygen may form exotic metallic compounds
• This could generate a magnetic field to make the planets hospitable to life 

Giant Earth-like planets orbiting in distant solar systems may contain exotic compounds that should, in theory, be impossible under the rules of classic chemistry.

Researchers said the extreme pressures that exist in the interior of these so called super-Earths, which are many times heavier than our own planet, could create new chemicals.

Furthermore, these may give these planets powerful magnetic fields that could protect them from cosmic radiation, making them more hospitable for life.

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Super-Earths, such as Kepler-62f (illustrated in an artist's impression) may have pressures so great in their interiors that exotic compounds that would be impossible on Earth could exist there. Researchers have calculated this may give them powerful magnetic fields and mantles which could make them hospitable to life

The compounds, which are not thought to exist on Earth, could also help drive the circulation of heat far below the crust of these planets.

Professor Artem Oganov, head of the computational materials discovery laboratory at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and his colleagues examined the occurrence of silicon, oxygen and magnesium on Earth-like planets beyond our own solar system.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3378097/The-accurate...

The most accurate ocean floor map ever made: Scientists reveal the alien landscape beneath the sea in incredible detail 

• The map was created by measuring the shape and gravity field of Earth using a series of satellites
• Shades of orange and red represent areas where seafloor gravity is stronger than the global average
• This phenomenon mostly coincides with the location of underwater ridges, seamounts and tectonic plates
• Shades of blue represent areas of lower gravity, corresponding largely with the deepest troughs in the ocean

We have more complete maps of the surface of Mars than we do of some areas on Earth.

In an effort to change this, scientists have created the most detailed view of the Earth's seafloor to date, revealing huge mountains and giant crevices beneath the ocean.

The map was created by measuring the shape and gravity field of Earth, a relatively-new discipline known as geodesy. It provides gives an accurate picture of seafloor topography at a scale of 3.1 miles (5km) per pixel. 

This map shows a global view of gravity changes. Shades of orange and red represent areas where seafloor gravity is stronger than the global average, a phenomenon that mostly coincides with the location of underwater ridges, seamounts, and the edges of Earth’s tectonic plates. Shades of blue represent areas of lower gravity, corresponding largely with the deepest troughs in the ocean

HOW WAS THE MAP CREATED? 

The maps were created through computer analysis and modeling of new satellite data from CryoSat-2 and Jason-1.

CryoSat-2 was designed to collect data over Earth's polar regions, but it also collected measurements over the oceans.

Jason-1 was designed to measure the height of the oceans, but it had to be adjusted to a slightly different orbit in order to acquire the data needed to see gravity anomalies.

Seafloor features have a lot of mass, so they exert a gravitational pull on the water above and around them; essentially, seamounts pull more water toward their center of mass.

This causes water to pile up in small but measurable bumps on the sea surface. The new measurements of these tiny bumps were compared and combined with previous gravity measurements to create the map.

Close to 70 per cent of our planet is covered by water, and that water refracts, absorbs, and reflects light so well that it can only penetrate a few tens to hundreds of meters.

To humans and most satellite eyes, the deep ocean is opaque. But there are ways to visualise what the planet looks like beneath that watery shroud.

Sonar-based instruments mounted on ships can distinguish the shape of the seafloor. But such maps can only be made for places where ships and sonar pass frequently.

The majority of such measurements have been made along the major shipping routes of the world, interspersed with results from scientific expeditions over the past two centuries.

About 5 to 15 per cent of the global ocean floor has been mapped in this way, depending on how you define 'mapped.'

David Sandwell of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Walter Smith of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have spent much of the past 25 years negotiating with military agencies and satellite operators to allow them acquire or gain access to measurements of the Earth's gravity field and sea surface heights.

The result of their collaborative efforts is a global data set that tells where the ridges and valleys are by showing where the planet's gravity field varies.

The map above shows a global view of gravity anomalies, as measured and assembled by Sandwell, Smith, and his team.

Shades of orange and red represent areas where seafloor gravity is stronger than the global average, a phenomenon that mostly coincides with the location of underwater ridges, seamounts, and the edges of Earth's tectonic plates.

Shades of blue represent areas of lower gravity, corresponding largely with the deepest troughs in the ocean.

The maps were created through computer analysis and modeling of new satellite data from the European Space Agency's CryoSat-2 and from the Nasa-CNES Jason-1, as well as older data from missions flown in the 1980s and 90s.

A tighter view of that data along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between Africa and South America. Through their work, the team has mapped thousands of previously uncharted mountains and abyssal hills. From these seafloor maps, scientists can further refine their understanding of the evolution and motion of Earth's tectonic plates and the continents they carry

More familiarization with moon swirls?

Runaway star Zeta Ophiuchi plowing through space debris.

Astronomers find dozens of runaway stars (Jan 6)

https://earthsky.org/space/runaway-stars-create-infrared-waves-in-s...

An example of creeping disclosure:

Globular clusters most likely to host interstellar civilizations (1/6/16)
If there are plenty of rocky exoplanets in globular clusters, scientists say they'd be places ripe for the evolution of intelligent life.

Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics say globular clusters -- large, dense spheres of stars -- are the galactic regions most likely to harbor interstellar civilizations.

"A globular cluster might be the first place in which intelligent life is identified in our galaxy," lead researcher Rosanne DiStefano said in a press release.

The statement appears obvious, simply a matter of numbers. But most astronomer have so far ignored globular clusters as possible hosts of alien life.

Astronomers estimate upwards of 70 percent of all stars in the universe exist in globular clusters. The more stars there are, the more planets there should be -- the more planets, the more opportunities for intelligent life to develop.

...If civilizations have developed inside a globular cluster, there would be a greater chance of interstellar communication. Stars there would be much closer together. The average distance between two stars in a cluster is 20 times closer than Earth is to its nearest stellar neighbor.

"Interstellar travel would take less time too," said DiStefano. "The Voyager probes are 100 billion miles from Earth, or one-tenth as far as it would take to reach the closest star if we lived in a globular cluster. That means sending an interstellar probe is something a civilization at our technological level could do in a globular cluster."...

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2016/01/06/Globular-clusters-most-l...

From ZetaTalk Chat Q&A for October 24, 2015

Disclosure over the alien presence has been in process for years, pressed by notables giving testimony. But given the battle Obama has had over admitting that Nibiru exists and is nearby, engaging directly in the battle to admit the alien presence has been delayed. Reagan Executive Orders forced both these issues to become national security issues, thus the long running cover-ups. A creeping disclosure has resulted.

http://www.zetatalk.com/ning/24oc2015.htm

Don't think this was ever posted here but if I'm wrong then it's a re-post for good measure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgC9iTY1YQk

Nibiru on Live Fox5 News! Expert Reveals 2 Dwarf Stars - Planet X 2016 update

Realize how Astronomer keeps repeating "Dwarf Planet" Not Dwarf Star? Astronomer confirms Nibiru/Planet X living in our solar system called Brown Dwarf Objects with no eliptical orbit.

Nibiru also known as A.K.A Planet X, Nemesis, The Destroyer, Wormwood, Hercolubus, Comet Typhon

This video is from Aug 2015, but not many people got the chance to see it, for some reason.

Talk About Nibiru Reemerges in Jerusalem

This apocalyptic scenario is being raised again by autistic religious Jews in Israel who reportedly communicate spiritual messages through facilitated communication.

http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/59204/planet-nibiru-pocalypse-jew...

Dark Twin fodder:

Is 'Earth 2.0' planet hiding behind the Sun?

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/487744/counter-earth-pla...

 Two USA Today articles posted today:

Researchers find evidence of ninth planet in solar system

Caltech researchers have found evidence of a giant planet.

Honey I'm home!

On BBC Radio 4 and the BBC website

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35365323

The creeping disclosure continues. The same "Planet 9" story given prominence on news.com.au - note the references to Planet X and elliptical orbits.

Scientists may have discovered ninth planet on far reaches of solar system

AN INVISIBLE giant is lurking on the edge of our solar system. Scientists are hailing the possible discovery of a new planet 10 times the size of Earth.

The object follows a “bizarre, highly elongated orbit in the distant solar system,” taking it — on average — some 20 times further from the Sun as Neptune, say researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

Researchers Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown say they found the planet through mathematical modelling and computer simulations, and have not yet observed the object directly.

But they are convinced it is there.

“For the first time in over 150 years, there is solid evidence that the solar system’s planetary census is incomplete.”

http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/space/scientists-may-have...

CIA jumps on the UFO bandwagon

https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2016-fe...

How To Investigate a Flying Saucer

Southbound on a lone desert highway, police officer Lonnie Zamora was in pursuit of a speeding car outside the town of Socorro, New Mexico, when he was startled by a loud roar! Seconds later, he saw a large flame rise from the ground and pierce the sky above a remote patch of desert southwest of the highway. Fearing a nearby dynamite shack might have exploded, Zamora let the speeding car go, turned right, and drove down a bumpy gravel road that ran alongside the shack.

Zamora’s cruiser clunked along the rocky road until he came upon a steep hill. Rising from behind the hill was a smokeless fire that glowed in a funnel of blue and orange tinted flames. The hill obscured the origin of the flames, so Zamora attempted to drive up it. His cruiser’s tires slipped and swayed on the loose gravel, but after three attempts, Zamora finally made it to the top.

A shiny object, the size of a sedan, sparkled in the late afternoon sunshine about 150-200 yards from where Zamora was perched on the hilltop. At first glance, he thought it was a car overturned in an arroyo (dry creek bed), but when he drove closer, it appeared to be aluminum in color, not chrome, and oval-shaped like a football.

Zamora drove toward the object, along the hill’s crest, for about 50 feet and then stopped the car. He radioed back to the sheriff’s office that he would be busy checking on a wreck “down in the arroyo,” and then he descended on foot down the hill toward the object.

Roooaaarrr! Zamora was startled again by a very loud rumble, not exactly like a blast but also not steady like a jet engine. It started at a low frequency, with the pitch slowly rising. The flame appeared to be coming from the underside of the object, glowing light blue on top and orange at the bottom. Zamora panicked, afraid the object was about to blow.

He ran to take cover but turned back to look at the object as he fled. He noticed a red symbol on the side, shaped like a point that was about 2 inches high and 2 inches wide. The object was smooth, a shiny white aluminum, with no visible windows or doors. There appeared to be two metal legs, slanted outward, supporting it.

Zamora sprinted to his car, hit his leg on the fender, and crashed to the ground. He got up, ran another 25 feet or so, and when he looked back again, he saw the object begin to rise.

It rose to the level of the car, then higher, about 20 to 25 feet in the air.

Zamora ran another 50 feet from his car, just over the edge of the hill, and ducked. Kneeling as close to the ground as he could, he covered his face with his arms for protection. Suddenly, the roar stopped. In the uneasy silence, Zamora lifted his head and looked.

The object sped away from him, toward the southwest, appearing to go in a straight line at about 10-15 feet off the ground. It cleared the eight foot tall dynamite shack by about three feet and then continued in a southwesterly direction, until it went over the high desert mountains and disappeared...

Hector Quintanilla, the last chief officer of the US Air Force’s famous UFO investigation program, Project BLUE BOOK, was in charge of the Zamora case. His team was convinced that Zamora was telling the truth, and despite an extremely thorough investigation, they were unable to locate the object or its origins. In an article for Studies in Intelligence called, “The Investigation of UFO’s,” Quintanilla says that the Zamora sighting is “the best-documented case on record.” It remains unsolved.

Project BLUE BOOK was based at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio. Between 1947 and 1969, the Air Force recorded 12,618 sightings of strange phenomena — 701 of which remain "unidentified" like the Zamora case. Although the CIA was not directly affiliated with Project BLUE BOOK, the Agency did play a large role in investigating UFOs in the late 1940s and early 1950s, which led to the creation of several studies, panels, and programs. Former CIA Chief Historian, Gerald K. Haines, wrote an in-depth article looking at the Agency’s role in studying the UFO phenomenon for Studies in Intelligence. In his article, “CIA’s Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90,” Haines says that “while the Agency’s concern over UFOs was substantial until the early 1950s, CIA has since paid only limited and peripheral attention to the phenomena.”

With over 20 years of investigations, from the late 1940s until Project BLUE BOOK’s termination in 1969, the CIA and USAF have learned a thing or two about how to investigate a UFO sighting. While most government officials and scientists now dismiss flying saucer reports as a quaint relic of the 1950s and 1960s, there’s still a lot that can be learned from the history and methodology of “flying saucer intelligence.”

10 Tips When Investigating a Flying Saucer:

1. Establish a Group To Investigate and Evaluate Sightings

Before December 1947, there was no specific organization tasked with the responsibility for investigating and evaluating UFO sightings. There were no standards on how to evaluate reports coming in, nor were there any measurable data points or results from controlled experiment for comparison against reported sightings.

To end the confusion, head of the Air Force Technical Service Command, General Nathan Twining, established Project SIGN (initially named Project SAUCER) in 1948 to collect, collate, evaluate, and distribute within the government all information relating to such sightings, on the premise that UFOs might be real (although not necessarily extraterrestrial) and of national security concern. Project SIGN eventually gave way to Project GRUDGE, which finally turned into Project BLUE BOOK in 1952.

2. Determine the Objectives of Your Investigation

The CIA’s concern over UFOs was substantial until the early 1950s because of the potential threat to national security from these unidentified flying objects. Most officials did not believe the sightings were extraterrestrial in origin; they were instead concerned the UFOs might be new Soviet weapons.

The Project BLUE BOOK team, according to Quintanilla, defined three main objectives for their investigations:

• To determine if UFO phenomena present a threat to the security of the US;
• To determine if UFO phenomena exhibit any technological advances which could be channeled into US research and development; and
• To explain or identify the stimuli which caused the observer to report a UFO.

Although BLUE BOOK, like previous investigative projects on the topic, did not rule out the possibility of extraterrestrial phenomena, their research and investigations focused primarily on national security implications, especially possible Soviet technological advancements.

3. Consult With Experts

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, various projects, panels, and other studies were led or sponsored by the US government to research the UFO phenomenon. This includes the CIA-sponsored 1953 Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, also known as the “Robertson Panel.” It was named after the noted physicist H.P. Robertson from the California Institute of Technology, who helped put together the distinguished panel of nonmilitary scientists to study the UFO issue.

Project BLUE BOOK also frequently consulted with outside experts, including: astrophysicists, Federal Aviation officials, pilots, the US Weather Bureau, local weather stations, academics, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, NASA, Kodak (for photo analysis), and various laboratories (for physical specimens). Even the famous astronomer Carl Sagan took part in a panel to review Project BLUE BOOK’s findings in the mid-1960s. The report from that panel concluded that “no UFO case which represented technological or scientific advances outside of a terrestrial framework” had been found, but the committee did recommend that UFOs be studied intensively to settle the issue once and for all.

4. Create a Reporting System To Organize Incoming Cases

The US Air Force’s Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) developed questionnaires to be used when taking reports of possible UFO sightings, which were used throughout the duration of Project BLUE BOOK. The forms were used to provide the investigators enough information to determine what the unknown phenomenon most likely was. The duration of the sighting, the date, time, location, or position in the sky, weather conditions, and the manner of appearance or disappearance are essential clues for investigators evaluating reported UFO sightings.

Project BLUE BOOK categorized sightings according to what the team suspected they were attributable to: Astronomical (including bright stars, planets, comets, fireballs, meteors, and auroral streamers); Aircraft (propeller aircraft, jet aircraft, refueling missions, photo aircraft, advertising aircraft, helicopters); Balloons; Satellites; Other (including missiles, reflections, mirages, searchlights, birds, kites, spurious radar indications, hoaxes, fireworks, and flares); Insufficient Data; and finally, Unidentified.

According to Quintanilla, “a sighting is considered unidentified when a report apparently contains all the data necessary to suggest a valid hypothesis, but its description cannot be correlated with any known object or phenomenon.”

5. Eliminate False Positives

Eliminate each of the known and probable causes of UFO sightings, leaving a small portion of “unexplained” cases to focus on. By ruling out common explanations, investigators can focus on the truly mysterious cases.

Some common explanations for UFO sightings discovered by early investigations included: misidentified aircrafts (the U-2, A-12, and SR-71 flights accounted for more than half of all UFO reports from the late 1950s and most of the 1960s); celestial events; mass hysteria and hallucination; “war hysteria;” “midsummer madness;” hoaxes; publicity stunts; and the misinterpretation of known objects.

Even history can shed some light. An interesting citation found by the 1953 Robertson Panel noted that some sightings had been attributed to an older phenomenon – “Foo Fighters” – that pre-dated the modern concept of UFOs: “These were unexplained phenomena sighted by aircraft pilots during World War II in both European and Far East theaters of operation wherein ‘balls of light’ would fly near or with the aircraft and maneuver rapidly. They were believed to be electrostatic (similar to St. Elmo’s fire) or electromagnetic phenomena… but their exact cause or nature was never defined. If the term ‘flying saucers’ had been popular in 1943-1945, these objects would have been so labeled.”

6. Develop Methodology To Identify Common Aircraft and Other Aerial Phenomena Often Mistaken for UFOs

Because of the significant likelihood a common (or secret military) aircraft could be mistaken for a UFO, it’s important to know the characteristics of different types of aircraft and aerial phenomenon to evaluate against each sighting. To help investigators go through the troves of reports coming in, Project BLUE BOOK developed a methodology to determine if the UFO sighting could likely be attributable to a known aircraft or aerial phenomenon. They wrote up detailed descriptions characterizing each type of aircraft or astronomical phenomenon, including how it might be mistaken for a UFO, to help investigators evaluate the incoming reports.

7. Examine Witness Documentation

Any photographs, videos, or audio recordings can be immensely helpful in evaluating a reported UFO sighting.

A famous case examined by the Robertson Panel was the “Tremonton, Utah Sighting” of 1952, where a couple and two children traveling cross-country on State Highway 30 outside of Tremonton saw what appeared to be 10-12 bright shining objects moving westward in the sky in a rough formation. The husband was able to capture some of the objects on film.

The case was considered significant because of the “excellent documentary evidence in the form of Kodachrome motion picture films (about 1600 frames).” The Panel examined the film, case history, ATIC’s interpretation, and received a briefing from representatives of the USN Photo Interpretation Laboratory on their analysis of the film. The laboratory believed the objects were not birds, balloons, aircraft, or reflections, and therefore had to be “self-luminous.” The panel disagreed with the assessment that the objects were self-luminous, believing that if a controlled experiment was conducted, a terrestrial explanation for the sighting would be confirmed.

8. Conduct Controlled Experiments

As suggested by the Robertson Panel for investigating the Tremonton, Utah sighting (mentioned in tip #7), controlled experiments might be required to try and replicate the unknown phenomena. In the Tremonton case, the Panel suggested an experiment where scientists would photograph “pillow balloons” at different distances under similar weather conditions at the site. They believed such an experiment could help dispel the “self-luminous” theory about the objects in the film. Unfortunately, in this case, the cost of conducting such an experiment made the idea unfeasible.

9. Gather and Test Physical and Forensic Evidence

In the Zamora case (from the introduction), Quintanilla contends that during the course of the investigation and immediately thereafter, “everything that was humanly possible to verify was checked.” This included bringing in Geiger counters from Kirtland Air Force Base to test for radiation in the landing area and sending soil samples to the Air Force Materials Laboratory. “The soil analysis disclosed no foreign material. Radiation was normal for the ‘tracks’ and surrounding area. Laboratory analysis of the burned brush showed no chemicals that could have been propellant residue,” according to Quintanilla. “The findings were all together negative.” No known explanation could be found for the mysterious event.

10. Discourage False Reporting

The Robertson Panel found that the Air Force had “instituted a fine channel for receiving reports of nearly anything anyone sees in the sky and fails to understand.” This is a classic example of needing to separate the “signal from the noise.” If you have too many false or junk reports, it becomes increasingly difficult to find the few good ones worthy of investigation or attention.

The CIA in the early 1950s was concerned that because of the tense Cold War situation and increased Soviet capabilities, the Soviets could use UFO reports to ignite mass panic and hysteria. Even worse, the Soviets could use UFO sightings to overload the US air warning system so that it could not distinguish real targets from supposed UFOs.

In order to lessen the amount of false-positive reports, the Robertson Panel suggested educating the military, researchers, and even the public on how to identify objects or phenomena commonly mistaken for UFOs. For example, they recommended training enlisted, command, and research personnel on how to properly recognize unusually illuminated objects (like balloons or aircraft reflections), as well as natural phenomena (such as meteors, fireballs, mirages, or noctilucent “night” clouds). By knowing how to correctly recognize objects that were commonly mistaken for UFOs, investigators could quickly eliminate false reports and focus on identifying those sightings which remained unexplained.

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China Just Released True Color HD Photos Of The Moon

http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/30/china-just-released-true-color-hd-...

Real-life 'X-Files'? CIA posts trove of UFO documents

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2016/01/29/real-life-x-files-cia-pos...

The truth is out there – the CIA is offering a peek into its ‘X-files,’ shining a spotlight on a series of once-classified UFO documents.

“To help navigate the vast amount of data contained in our FOIA UFO collection, we’ve decided to highlight a few documents both skeptics and believers will find interesting,” explained the agency, in a blog post.

Related: Astronaut Scott Kelly's 'UFO' photo generates extraterrestrial buzz

The UFO documents, which date primarily from the 1940s and 1950s, are among hundreds that the CIA declassified in 1978.

“We also pulled five documents we think his skeptical partner, Agent Dana Scully, could use to prove there is a scientific explanation for UFO sightings,” it added.

The “Mulder” documents include 1952 reports of flying saucers over the then-East Germany, Spain and North Africa, as well as a survey of UFO reports from the same year. The agency also posted a 1952 report of “two fiery disks” flying over a uranium mine in the then-Belgian Congo and the minutes of a CIA branch chief’s meeting discussing UFOs.

The report from East Germany details “an object ‘resembling a huge frying pan’ and having a diameter of about 15 meters [49 feet].” The object landed in a forest clearing in Germany’s Soviet Zone, according to the report.

“A smoke-trailing object over Barcelona” and an unusual object “emitting a pale green light” over the Tunisian city of Sousse are described in the report from Spain and North Africa.

Photos posted on the CIA website include an unexplained sighting above Minneapolis in 1960 and another above Sheffield, U.K. two years later. It also posted an image of a UFO investigation in Socorro, N.M.

The “Mulder” documents include an office memo from 1949, a 1952 memo to the Director of Central Intelligence and a ‘Memorandum for the Record on Flying Saucers,’ also from 1952. The agency also posted a 1953 document detailing the suggestions of a scientific advisory panel on UFOs and the minutes of an Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI) UFO advisory group from the same year.

Caught this on the Nightly Show 1/28/16 but could only find this link to the story

http://www.fox13news.com/news/local-news/82883801-story

It's been posted before several times on the ning the fact that the US has been militarising its local law enforcement 

Obama has been restricting the amount of military hardware that is given to local police forces for some time (or at least has been trying to) but now he has set a deadline of April 1st for local law enforcement agencies to return federal military equipment. 

Thought it was interesting we have another possibly related date as the wait for the announcement goes on. (FYI the April 1st date is from the Nightly Show report on the subject)

this is the Nightly Show link for those in the US who can watch it:

http://www.cc.com/full-episodes/saqwa1/the-nightly-show-with-larry-...

Massive Planet Gone Rogue Discovered (Feb 11)

http://www.universetoday.com/127350/massive-planet-gone-rogue-disco...

Lost Tapes Reveal Apollo Astronauts Heard Unexplained ‘Music’ On Far Side Of The Moon

"If you’re behind the moon and hear some weird noise on your radio, and you know you’re blocked from the Earth, then what could you possibly think?"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/apollo-10-astronauts-reported-u...

Filled with (Human emissions global warming disinformation) but it is The NY Times. Maybe it's their way of tapping the population on the shoulder with "Hey, Maybe you should consider getting away from coastal areas."

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/23/science/sea-level-rise-global-war...

Seas Are Rising at Fastest Rate in Last 28 Centuries

The worsening of tidal flooding in American coastal communities is largely a consequence of greenhouse gases from human activity, and the problem will grow far worse in coming decades, scientists reported Monday.

Those emissions, primarily from the burning of fossil fuels, are causing the ocean to rise at the fastest rate since at least the founding of ancient Rome, the scientists said. They added that in the absence of human emissions, the ocean surface would be rising less rapidly and might even be falling.

The increasingly routine tidal flooding is making life miserable in places like Miami Beach; Charleston, S.C.; and Norfolk, Va., even on sunny days.

Though these types of floods often produce only a foot or two of standing saltwater, they are straining life in many towns by killing lawns and trees, blocking neighborhood streets and clogging storm drains, polluting supplies of freshwater and sometimes stranding entire island communities for hours by overtopping the roads that tie them to the mainland.

Such events are just an early harbinger of the coming damage, the new research suggests.

“I think we need a new way to think about most coastal flooding,” said Benjamin H. Strauss, the primary author of one of two related studies released on Monday. “It’s not the tide. It’s not the wind. It’s us. That’s true for most of the coastal floods we now experience.”

In the second study, scientists reconstructed the level of the sea over time and confirmed that it is most likely rising faster than at any point in 28 centuries, with the rate of increase growing sharply over the past century — largely, they found, because of the warming that scientists have said is almost certainly caused by human emissions

They also confirmed previous forecasts that if emissions were to continue at a high rate over the next few decades, the ocean could rise as much as three or four feet by 2100.

US military knowledge and coverup of UFOs and aliens (including reference to the Rendlesham Forest incident in the UK in 1980) has received recent coverage.

“Famous UFO Stories” http://www.zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue421.htm
Rendlesham Forest UFO incident http://www.zetatalk.com/ning/11oc2014.htm

(2/26/16)

A FORMER US naval officer has sensationally claimed to have seen pictures of real aliens and UFOs among top-secret military files.

...The man, who says he was a third-class petty officer at a US Naval telecommunications centre during the 1980s, before more senior posts in the US Army and Navy Seals, claims to have valuable new evidence about the Bizarre Rendlesham UK UFO mass sightings, in Suffolk in 1980.

The married man, now living in Ohio, said he was based at NAS Moffett Field, in California, and he was there from February 1986 to October 1989, while also working with contacts in Silicone Valley.

He said: "I have never seen a UFO or ET or alien, however I have seen literally tens of thousand of documents confirming they are real and have visited Earth."

Asked if the files had included photographs of genuine alien crafts and beings, he said: "Yes, absolutely."

The veteran said he was now able to speak because his confidentiality agreement with the US authorities expired in 2014.

..."I do not possess anything other than my testimony and documents that authorise that I legitimately had the individual top-secret security clearances.

...Turning the strange subject more sinister, he said he had chosen to come forward because he could "shed light on things that might give some people closure."

He said there were colleagues he knew of whose deaths had been connected to aliens or whistle blowing about them and the truth behind how they died had been covered up.

..."The Government wants there to be enough water under the bridge before someone speaks, with incidents like Rendlesham Forest people are emotionally charged.

"They don't want someone to stir up the pot, and I would never compromise national security or servicemens' lives, but people deserve to have answers.”

The whistleblower said no one had died during the Rendlesham incident, but added: "In other cases people have paid the ultimate price and their families have not been told the truth."

..."I would like to share my knowledge in hopes that someone will be able to use it effectively towards disclosure."

http://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/647476/EXCLUSIVE-Navy-whistleblower-saw-proof-of-aliens-and-UFOs-on-Earth

Whistleblower about to 'lift lid on 1000s of UFO files' is GENUINE, says ex-MoD man (2/16/16)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/644284/Whistleblower-to-blow-li...

U.S. Navy Whistleblower Claims Proof of Aliens and UFOs, Saw Thousands Of Photos Of Aliens And UFOs At Naval Base (2/25/16)
http://www.inquisitr.com/2828516/us-navy-whistleblower-claims-proof...

Top secret UFO documents 'prove Britain's biggest alien sighting was real' claims US naval officer (2/25/16)
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/top-secret-ufo-documents-prove...

Top secret UFO documents 'prove Britain's biggest alien sighting was real' claims US naval officer (2/25/16)
http://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/worldtrendnews/top-secret-ufo-documen...

Navy officer saw 'proof of aliens and UFOs' in government files and claims people have been killed to keep them quiet (2/26/16)
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/6959169/Navy-officer-...

UFOs And Aliens 'Have Visted Earth' Former US Naval Officer Claims (2/26/16)
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2016/02/26/ufos-and-aliens-have-vis...

Aliens visiting earth? Retired US naval officer claims seeing 'evidence' of UFO sightings (2/27/16)
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/aliens-visiting-earth-retired-us-naval-off...

"Mars shifted poles after volcano eruptions".

Article describes a pole shift: "Imagine if you had a peach and you twisted the fruit's flesh around its pit — that's what happened to Mars".

How massive volcanoes gave Mars a makeover (3/4/16)

Powerful volcanic activity literally moved the planet, according to a study published in the journal of Nature on Wednesday. These findings join a list of other factors that may have changed Mars into the cold, dry planet we now know.

A large volcanic structure known as the Tharsis volcanic dome caused the Red Planet's surface to tilt by 20 to 25 degrees 3 billion to 3.5 billion years ago.

Tharsis is home to the largest volcanoes in our solar system, and because of their mass they were able to spew out so much lava that the outer layers of Mars rotated around its core.

Imagine if you had a peach and you twisted the fruit's flesh around its pit — that's what happened to Mars.

Pole shift described in press release for Mars study.

Great tilt gave Mars a new face (3/2/16)

"It wasn't the rotation axis of Mars that shifted (a process known as variation of obliquity) but rather the outer layers (mantle and crust) that rotated with respect to the inner core, rather like turning the flesh of an apricot around its stone."

http://www2.cnrs.fr/en/2719.htm

Comet flyby threw Mars into chaos: Close encounter disrupted the pl...

Another excuse being served up to explain future earth problems?

Scientists have discovered a large exoplanet that passes very close to its star, possessing the most eccentric orbit ever observed, and then slingshots far, far away, before it finally returns for another pass.

The planet, HD 20782, has an eccentricity of .96, which means it moves on an almost flattened elipse, traveling as far as 2.5 times the distance between the sun and the Earth before swinging around its star very close, coming at .06 of the same Earth-Sun distance. That’s closer than Mercury is to the sun.

It’s not a small planet. It’s about the size of Jupiter, but it acts like a comet — a pretty bizarre planet by scientific standards.

In the case of HD20782, the suspects could be that there was more than one planet in the system and two planets got too close together, or the planet is in a binary star system.

Sources

http://www.morningticker.com/2016/03/scientists-stunned-to-discover...

http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/life-on-most-eccentric-plane...

Scans of King Tut’s Tomb Reveal New Evidence of Hidden Rooms

Second round of radar scanning will look for more clues to what lies behind the walls of Tut’s burial chamber.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/03/160317-king-tut-tomb-hid...

Previous zetatalk: http://zetatalk.com/ning/25ma2013.htm

Did King Tut’s tomb have information on the nature and timing of the last Pole Shift, and is this related to the Mummy’s Curse? Were those who threatened to publish, or use, this timeline information killed by the elite, those with knowledge of same, to silence them? It is no secret that the elite, including the Vatican, have been aware of the approaching cataclysms to be caused by the next passage of Nibiru, aka Planet X. The Book of Enoch was removed from the official Bible because of such information. The Swiss franc brazenly states this. These elite were certainly alive and well in 1922 when the tomb was opened.

The subject of books and movies, the Mummy’s Curse seemed very real as participants in exploring the newly opened tomb died in rapid succession of an infected mosquito bite, a mysterious fever, malarial pneumonia, arsenic poisoning, or blood poisoning after going blind. All this can be ascribed to some type of assassination by poison or germs. Then there are the more overt and direct instances of being smothered in bed, shot by a family member, killed by a black mailer, shot by an assassin, or jumping to one’s death. Clearly, this was not chance and was as a result of an effort to wipe out those with knowledge or those who indicated they would seek to use this knowledge.

Why do the elite fear this knowledge falling into public hands? Knowledge is power, in that knowledge allows one to be positioned to take advantage of others. If I know the date, where you do not, I can secure control or ownership of vital resources, can locate to high ground, can control migration routes so that you must pay me a toll or indenture yourself to me. These same issues exist today with the struggle to end the cover-up over the near presence and pending passage of Nibiru, aka Planet X. The argument is often framed as avoiding panic and rioting in the public, but the deeper reason for the fight is that many enjoy the power they have over others.

Here we go again....

Is there really a NINTH planet in our solar system? Scientists say they have even more evidence of mysterious world and it could be hurtling towards Earth!

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/504242/planet-nine-nibi...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3512652/Is-really-NI... 

"HD 80606 b is in a highly elliptical comet-like orbit around its star."

The Wild Temperature Swings of an Exoplanet (3/25/16) posted by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

The exoplanet HD80606 b spends most of its time far from its star, but every 111 days it swings in feverishly close.

https://youtu.be/nQn4iVs1_ag

NASA simulate wild orbit & dramatic climate of ‘chemical cauldron’ exoplanet (3/29/16)

...a planet 190 light-years from Earth has caught the lense of NASA’s Spitzer infrared space telescope because of its “wildly eccentric” 111 day orbit around its star.

https://www.rt.com/viral/337499-chemical-cauldron-exoplanet-nasa/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3516450/Search-alien...

Search for alien life expands to 20,000 star systems: Planets orbiting red dwarfs may be more habitable than thought, says Seti

• Seti previously ruled out red dwarfs because habitable zones were small
• Recently, scientists discovered that life could thrive around these stars 
• But now says older systems have more time to produce intelligent species
• New 2-year project involves picking from a list of about 70,000 red dwarfs

The search for alien worlds is expanding to 20,000 star systems that were previously considered poor targets for intelligent life.

New data has led the SETI Institute to believe systems orbiting red dwarfs - dim, long-lived stars that are on average billions of years older than our sun - are worth investigating.

'This may be one instance in which older is better,' said astronomer Seth Shostak of California-based SETI, a private, non-profit organisation.

The search for alien worlds is expanding to 20,000 star systems that were previously considered poor targets for intelligent life. Pictured is an artist's impression of an alien planet.  New scientific data has led the SETI Institute to believe systems orbiting red dwarfs are worth investigating

'Older solar systems have had more time to produce intelligent species.'

The two-year project involves picking from a list of about 70,000 red dwarfs and scanning 20,000 of the nearest ones, along with the cosmic bodies that circle them.

To do this, scientists will use the SETI Institute's Allen Telescope Array in northern California, a group of 42 antennas that can observe three stars simultaneously.

Is Planet X to blame for Earth's mass extinctions?

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2016/03/30/Is-Planet-X-to-blame-for...

The phrasing used to describe the exoplanet hints at the Earth during the last weeks prior to the pole shift.

This Newly Discovered Triple Sun Planet Would See Some Truly Bizarre Skies (4/1/16)

Newly-discovered planet KELT-4Ab has three suns—but that triple-solar view isn’t the only weird thing you’d see happen overhead. Not by a long shot.

...[Jason Eastman of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics] sketched out a timeline for what that might look like...

..."Your year and day would be the same: 3 Earth days, which means half of planet would be in continuous daylight and the other half would be in continuous darkness".
http://gizmodo.com/this-newly-discovered-triple-sun-planet-would-se...

ZetaTalk: 3 Days of Darkness
written Sep 30, 2004

Introducing key terms before announcing the cause and effect?

Global warming changing Earth's wobble, NASA says (4/8/16)

...shifting the way the Earth wobbles on its polar axis, a new NASA study finds.

...tilt the wobble further...

...Jianli Chen, a senior research scientist at the University of Texas' Center for Space Research, first attributed the pole shift to climate change in 2013 and he said this new study takes his work a step further.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/global-warming-changing-earths-wobble-n...