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-...

[SongStar101]

Found: Another star system with eight planets, just like ours

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/12/...

An illustration of the Kepler spacecraft. (Wendy Stenzel/NASA/Ames Research Center)

Only a handful of star systems have more than a single planet. With eight worlds, our solar system has long taken the prize for the biggest lineup. But no longer.

Our corner of the galaxy now shares the record with another system, Kepler 90, NASA and Google researchers announced Thursday. A Google algorithm uncovered a scorcher of a planet, a rock 30 percent larger than Earth, orbiting a star a few thousand light-years away. This planet, Kepler 90i, brought the total number of planets circling its star to eight — just like our solar system's octuplets.

“For the first time, we’ve discovered an eighth planet in a distant planetary system,” Paul Hertz, head of NASA's astrophysics division, said during a media briefing. This discovery required an advanced technology to comb through the gargantuan amount of data obtained by the Kepler space observatory. 

The Kepler telescope, which trails millions of miles behind Earth like a loyal pup, has gazed out into space since 2009. During that time it has brought in data from 150,000 stars. When an exoplanet crosses in front of one of them, Kepler registers a subtle dip in that star's sunlight.

Fishing for those dips within the massive database is a challenge. “The Kepler mission has so much data it is impossible to examine manually,” Christopher Shallue, a Google AI software engineer, explained during the briefing.

With help from Andrew Vanderburg, an astronomer at the University of Texas at Austin, Shallue developed a machine-learning program that detects light curves. (Google and NASA have been collaborating for years; in 2013, they unveiled the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab, a machine-learning facility at the space agency's Ames Research Center.) The scientists did not give the program, called a neural network, explicit instructions to find the characteristic curves of an exoplanet. Instead, it had to learn by example.

“A neural network is loosely inspired by the structure of the human brain,” Shallue said. “You can think of the neurons as switches.” The U-shaped dip of Kepler 90i passing in front of its star was too weak a signal for human detection. But it was strong enough for the AI, churning through 14 billion data points, to detect.

Astronomers are confident that the exoplanet exists and that its surface temperature could exceed 800 degrees Fahrenheit. It has a shorter orbit than Mercury's, completing a circle around its star once every two weeks. “This is almost certainly an exoplanet,” Vanderburg said, with the odds of a false positive being 1 in 10,000. Already, the results from this deep data dive have been accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal.

But the number of worlds is not the only similarity between our solar system and the Kepler 90 system. As in ours, Kepler's small, rocky planets are closest to the sun and its gas giants farthest away. Kepler 90 itself is larger than our sun, though not extremely so.

The planets in our system are far more spread out, however. Neptune is, at its closest, 2.8 billion miles from the sun. The most distant gas giant in the Kepler 90 system is 93 million miles from its star. “All the planets are found scrunched very close to their star,” Vanderburg said.

Because the telescope has only observed the system's center, it may contain still other worlds. “It’s very possible that Kepler 90 has even more planets that we don’t know about,” Vanderburg added. Any planet with a longer orbit — a world as far from Kepler 90 as Jupiter is from our sun — would pass by the observatory undetected.

(On the other hand, some astronomers argue it's possible that our solar system has unknown planets, such as Planet Nine, lurking on the fringe. Perhaps we could reclaim our galactic exceptionalism once again.)

The Kepler telescope is in its twilight years. In 2013, two of four reaction wheels that had kept it on target failed. Without a fix, the mission was doomed.

Desperate to salvage the $550 million craft, researchers turned to the only available support: the sun. They harnessed the pressure of solar radiation to stabilize Kepler, as The Post reported in 2014. With two functional wheels and the force of the sun acting like a crutch, the craft could once again focus on distant stars. The reborn project was given the name K2.

During the Kepler and K2 missions, astronomers have confirmed the location of 2,500 exoplanets. Kepler has detected another 5,000 exoplanet candidates, which await confirmation.

The K2 mission was funded for an additional three years of life in 2016. The spacecraft's fuel is expected to run dry at some point in 2018.

[SongStar101]

Trump to send astronauts back to the moon -- and eventually Mars

http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/11/politics/trump-astronauts-moon/index....

Trump tells NASA to send astronauts to Mars

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump wants to send astronauts where no man has gone before.

Trump authorized the acting NASA administrator Robert M. Lightfoot Jr. to "lead an innovative space exploration program to send American astronauts back to the moon, and eventually Mars" during a White House signing ceremony.

Standing with retired astronauts and Vice President Mike Pence, Trump touted the initiative as the first step in establishing a foundation on the moon for "an eventual mission to Mars and perhaps someday to many worlds beyond."

"The directive I am signing today will refocus America's space program on human exploration and discovery," Trump said. "It marks an important step in returning American astronauts to the moon for the first time since 1972 for long-term exploration and use. This time we will not only plan on flag and leave our footprint."

Deputy White House press secretary Hogan Gidley said Monday that Trump's directive came after the National Space Council sent recommendations to the President.

"He will change our nation's human spaceflight policy to help America become the driving force for the space industry, gain new knowledge from the cosmos, and spur incredible technology," Gidley said Monday.

The directive, Gidley said, will push NASA to "refocus ... on its core mission of space exploration."

Trump's pick for NASA administrator -- Jim Bridenstine, a Republican congressman from Oklahoma -- has yet to be confirmed. He has come under withering criticism from Sen. Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat, who wields considerable power over the space program.

Both Trump and Pence have made it clear since the 2016 campaign that they would like to send astronauts back to the moon.

During a 2016 campaign event near NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Trump pledged to "free NASA from the restriction of serving primarily as a logistical agency for low Earth-orbit activities" and "instead refocus on space exploration."

"Under a Trump administration, Florida and America will lead the way into the stars," he said.

Pence, during the first meeting of the National Space Council in October, said the Trump administration "will return American astronauts to the moon, not only to leave behind footprints and flags, but to build the foundation we need to send Americans to Mars and beyond."

"The moon will be a stepping-stone, a training ground, a venue to strengthen our commercial and international partnerships as we refocus America's space program toward human space exploration," Pence said.

Other Republicans, namely former former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, have expressed interest in going back to the moon.

During his 2012 presidential bid, Gingrich advocated for forming colonies on the moon.

photo source

[SongStar101]

Scientists find living bacteria from outer space on ISS satellite’s surface

http://tass.com/science/977591

MOSCOW, October 27. /TASS/. Scientists have found living bacteria from outer space on the surface of the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS). They are being studied on Earth but most likely they don’t pose any sort of danger, Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov told TASS on Monday.

According to him, during spacewalks from the International Space Station under the Russian program, the cosmonauts took samples with cotton swabs from the station’s external surface. In particular, they took probes from places where the accumulation of fuel wastes were discharged during the engines’ operation or at places where the station’s surface is more obscure. After that, the samples were sent back to Earth.

"And now it turns out that somehow these swabs reveal bacteria that were absent during the launch of the ISS module. That is, they have come from outer space and settled along the external surface. They are being studied so far and it seems that they pose no danger," the Russian astronaut said.

Some terrestrial bacteria also survived on the space station’s external surface, though they had remained within a space vacuum for three years. In addition to that, they underwent sharp swings in temperature from minus 150 to plus 150 degrees Celsius, he noted.

The bacteria were brought to the space station accidentally on tablet PCs together with various materials that are placed aboard the ISS for long periods to study the materials’ behavior in outer space.

Shkaplerov will be the head of the space station’s new crew, which is set to take off to the world’s sole orbiter on December 17.

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Scientists discover bacteria from Arctic permafrost can withstand Mars-like environment

http://tass.com/science/976616

The study allows the scientists to approach the understanding of the survival limits of microorganisms placed in natural substrates under extreme conditions

YEKATERINBURG, November 21. /TASS/. Russian researchers have discovered that some bacteria from ancient Arctic permafrost can survive even up to 20 million years in an inactive state under conditions similar to those on Mars. The study of microorganisms was carried out during a joint project dubbed "Noah's Ark", the press office of Ural Federal University (UrFU) reported.

"This study is of extremely great value for science, since it allows us to approach the understanding of the survival limits of microorganisms placed in natural substrates under extreme conditions. The scientists from UrFU took part in the molecular-biological analysis of samples to find out the structure of microbial communities," commented Sergey Bulat, senior laboratory research assistant at the Extra Terra Consortium from the Physics and Technology Institute of UrFU.

According to the scientists, the study produced new insights into the ancient permafrost, which has not thawed for about two million years.

The researchers modeled conditions of amplified radiation background accompanied by low temperatures resembling those on the surface of Mars and studied the durability of microorganisms in these conditions. Up to now, it has not been clarified what the limits of microorganisms’ durability towards the impact of such extreme factors are. It turned out that some bacteria inhabiting the ancient Arctic permafrost could also exist up to 20 million years in an inactive state under conditions close to those found on Mars.

The results obtained are essential for planning astrobiological space expeditions where objects and regions under investigation, as well as methods of discovering traces of life, should be carefully picked. Data like this, in general, will broaden our knowledge of the durability of earthly life forms.

Noah's Ark project

Noah's Ark is a large-scale project to create the first ever mega-storage of biological materials, and by studying it can provide a clue to understanding the mechanisms of rare diseases and unlock the secrets of evolution.

The research was conducted by the scientists from Moscow State University in close collaboration with colleagues from the Ural Federal University, the Russian Space Research Institute, the Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, the B.P. Konstantinov St. Petersburg Institute for Nuclear Physics, and the Kurchatov Institute. The results of the study were published in the journal Extremophiles.

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http://zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue583.htm

Rather than a blind march toward the abyss, Patriarch Kirill is suggesting that the politicians and the citizenry of Russia, “who love the Motherland”, take responsibility for plotting a different path. Of course Putin has placed Russia on that path already, by providing free land to those who move to Russia’s Far East and by moving the State Offices from Moscow to the Far East. Is Patriarch Kirill’s speech the start of an official announcement regarding Nibiru?

We have implied that Russia will lead in these admissions about Nibiru, and yes, this is the start.

[Stanislav]

Russian Patriarch Kirill warned of the approach of the end of the world. Machine translate

20 November, 2017. "According to the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, all people who love their homeland should be together, because humanity is entering a "critical period of development," and this can be seen with the naked eye.

"One must be blind not to see the approach of the terrible moments of history, about which the apostle and evangelist John the Theologian spoke in his Revelation," he said after the Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.

The Patriarch added that, according to Christian doctrine, the end of the world depends on the people themselves. He urged everyone to realize responsibility for Russia and the entire human race, and also to stop "slipping into the abyss of the end of history.""

Патриарх Кирилл заявил, что приближение конца света "видно невооруженным глазом". (2017, November 20). Retrieved November 20, 2017, from https://ria.ru/religion/20171120/1509166583.html

[casey a]

Monster planet found orbiting dwarf star: 'surprised' astronomers

http://www.france24.com/en/20171031-monster-planet-found-orbiting-d...

A "monster" planet, which should in theory not exist, has been discovered orbiting a faint dwarf star far, far away, surprised astronomers said Tuesday.

The existence of the gassy giant challenges long-standing theories that such a big planet -- about the size of Jupiter -- cannot be formed around a star so small.

The planet was discovered by the Next-Generation Transit Survey (NGTS), based in Chile's Atacama Desert.

Once they found it, astronomers measured how much the planet's gravitational impact caused its parent star to "wobble", so as to determine its size, position and mass.

The planet's parent star is described as an M-dwarf -- the most common type in the universe, which means there may be many more unpredicted giant gas planets to be found, the team said.

"I'm looking forward to seeing what other kinds of exciting new planets we can turn up," Wheatley said.

[Ovidiu Pricopi]

16 Oct 2017 Another article in Yahoo Science News about Planet 9 ! NASA says the evidence for a ‘Planet Nine’ is mounting!

We might not actually know how many planets are in our Solar System — and no, this isn’t a trick regarding Pluto’s status. For years, scientists have wondered if there might be a larger, planet-sized body lurking in or around the thick layer of debris called the Kuiper Belt, and now NASA is saying the evidence is hard to ignore.

The would-be planet, which would likely be a frigid place thanks to its position on the very outer edge of the system, hasn’t been directly spotted, but measurements of other known objects in the Kuiper Belt heavily suggest something is there. The only thing left to do is actually spot it, or verify that it doesn’t actually exist at all.

“There are now five different lines of observational evidence pointing to the existence of Planet Nine,” Konstantin Batygin, a Caltech planetary astrophysicist, explains. “If you were to remove this explanation and imagine Planet Nine does not exist, then you generate more problems than you solve. All of a sudden, you have five different puzzles, and you must come up with five different theories to explain them.”

Simply put, the observations that have already been made all point to the existence of a planet that we don’t yet know about. The mythical Planet Nine is pulling on other objects in the Kuiper Belt, and causing them to behave in ways that match with the theory that an unknown planet is doing the pulling.

Now, scientists are doing their best to actually spot the planet, but it won’t be easy. Tucked away on the edge of our Solar System, it won’t exactly be the brightest object in the sky, and the only hope of capturing a glimpse of it will be to find its faint glow. If a new world is indeed discovered, it will undoubtedly be a huge deal for the scientific community, not to mention rewriting textbooks and changing the way we view our own cosmic back yard. https://www.yahoo.com/tech/nasa-says-evidence-planet-nine-mounting-...

[Matt B]

In February 2017 Nancy was featured in an episode of "How The World Ends", a cable TV series broadcast on the American Heroes Channel. The episode entitled "Planet X" presented both sides of the Nibiru cataclysm debate, with Nancy and ZetaTalk on one side and astronomer and paid debunker, Phil Plait on the other.

Individuals are presented who take the Pole Shift message seriously but for very different reasons. Marshall Masters is shown lecturing on survival techniques and offers dubious advice on sheltering underground to avoid radiation.

By contrast prepper Tim Park is shown constructing a shallow trench and demonstrating the floppy disc photo filter method.

Unfortunately access to this episode has been limited to the USA. Viewers must either subscribe to a cable TV network or purchase the episode from an online streaming service such as Amazon or iTunes. Those outside the USA are blocked from accessing these services due to international distribution restrictions. As such this important disclosure project has not yet received the global attention it deserves...

How The World Ends - Planet X - Nancy Lieder (Season 1 Episode 3)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyHgJVT_cOE



Ironically this video is currently blocked in the USA. However a Google search for "unblock youtube us" will reveal a solution. International viewers should be able to watch without restriction. The episode is also available for direct download at the links below. Each is a single .mp4 file stored in a .rar archive:

HTWE - PX (720p).rar - 1.25 GB

HTWE - PX (480p).rar - 505.94 MB

HTWE - PX (360p).rar - 136.86 MB

Please watch, enjoy and share this thorough and even-handed documentary. Note the subtle and overt references to ZetaTalk concepts and the work of this Ning. Can you spot Alberto's mylar filter photo collage?

Maximum appreciation to ALL who made this vital disclosure initiative possible - both behind and in front of the camera!

[Ovidiu Pricopi]

New article in Yahoo News about Planet 9 , the question is  : How Did It End Up Lurking at the Edge of the Solar System? they emphasis the fact that idea of the Planet 9 is from 2014!  Different scientist from UK , Switzerland ,USA ,Sweden they give their opinions! At the end they still look for it !    https://www.yahoo.com/news/planet-9-not-stolen-exoplanet-152237322....

[Recall 15]

Blast from the Past: On Disclosure  of the Extraterestrial Life:

On Youtube, the 1995 Disney´s  Ufo Documentary.

[Nancy Lieder]

The Russians lead!

http://www.meteovesti.ru/news/63634343530-izmeneniem-ugla-naklona-o...

there is an opinion that global climate change can be associated not with the notorious human impact on nature, namely, with a change in the slope of the Earth. Moreover, all natural anomalies point to this factor.
Why is this happening? There is no single answer to this question.

Full article:

In the world there is nothing permanent, and even the Sun does not always rise and go in the same place. It's all about the angle of the tilt of the earth's axis with respect to the plane of the ecliptic. Actually, it is he who is responsible for the change of the seasons on our planet.
When the North Pole of the Earth is turned towards the Sun, summer comes in the northern hemisphere. And, after six months, on the opposite side of the earth's orbit, the North Pole is directed away from the Sun, and winter comes, and in the southern hemisphere, on the contrary, is summer.
With a periodicity of 40,000 years, the angle of inclination of the earth's axis varies from 22.1 to 24.5 ° The direction of the earth's axis also varies, but with a period of 26,000 years. During this cycle, every 13,000 years, poles change places. So with the change in the slope of the Earth's axis, the Sun rises and sets in different places.