Pre-Announcement Media Coverage

[John Smith]

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-plane...

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!?

https://poleshift.ning.com/forum/topics/nasa-scientists-discover-a-...

[Starr DiGiacomo]

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

Published on Jan 10, 2016

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.

[Scott]

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

[Howard]

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...

[KM]

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

[KM]

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.

[Mark]

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.

[Howard]

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...

[Scott]

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.

[casey a]

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.

[Stanislav]

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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