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"Nearly Every Star Hosts at Least One Alien Planet"

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:

The real controversy is that there is no controversy

“I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people’s politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.”

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I am currently reading The Collapse of Western Civilization, A View from the the Future by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway and it got me thinking. The “book” is in fact a mere booklet, a 52-page essay the size of a postcard but it packs a lot in its tiny package. The authors imagine a future historian in the year 2393 looking back on our present time to discern and explain “how we — the children of the Enlightenment — failed to act on robust information about climate change and knowledge of the damaging events that were about to unfold.”

They write:

“Our historian concludes that a second Dark age had fallen on Western civilization, in which denial and self-deception, rooted in an ideological fixation on ‘free’ markets, disabled the world’s powerful nations in the face of tragedy.”

I have thought about this issue on a daily basis for the last nine years and continue to seek new words to express my perplexity. Oreskes and Conway write, “While analysts differ on the exact circumstances, virtually all agree that the people of Western civilization knew what was happening to them but were unable to stop it. Indeed, the most startling aspect of this story is just how much these people knew and how unable to act upon what they knew. Knowledge did not translate into power.”

Or to put it differently, knowledge did not lead to wisdom and without wisdom, the people were lost. How did this happen? As the title of this blog suggests, it was not an accident. The science was and is completely uncontroversial. The accumulated science from the 1950s to the late 1980s led to the uncomplicated understanding that what was long predicted — human-caused global warming — had leaped from the science journals and the climate models and was now present in the world.

Still, what was extremely controversial was the implications of our folly. We had begun to alter the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, the cryosphere and the biosphere. And all blame pointed to human civilization’s addiction to fossil fuels. Oreskes and Conway correctly identify industrialists, bankers and politicians as the culprits in the creation of a cult of denial that soon developed to confuse the consensus and muddy the minds of a conservative portion of the public who were remarkably easy to sway.

As the chart below shows, even as late as 1998, there was very litt... A mere seven points (46-53%) divided Democrats, Independents and Republicans when asked if global warming was already happening. Only fifteen years later, however, the gap quadrupled to 28 percentage points as Republicans reacted to the denial soup they were fed on a constant basis by conservative lies and propaganda disguised as journalism.

From 1998 to 2013, the fix was clear. If you were a Republican, you were taught to distrust science and deny the truth. No evidence was ever given for the denial and happily for the Kochs and ExxonMobil, they discovered their gullible followers were easy to fool. They did not require any proof. They still don’t.

Regarding the cause of temperature increases, the gap between D’s and R’s went from 16 points in 1998 to 39 points in 2013. Twice as many Democrats understood the science than did Republicans. What could account for this except for the successful selling of a lie by a motivated campaign to manipulate perceptions of conservatives?

When asked if global warming would pose a serious threat to you in your lifetime, the gap between D’s and R’s again doubled from 1998 to 2013 from 16 to 32 percent.

Finally, we find that when Republicans were asked in 1998 if the seriousness of global warming was exaggerated by the news about one-third agreed. As they were sauteed in denial sauce for a decade and a half, however, we find the number of GOP deniers nearly doubled to close to two-thirds. The science did not change. If anything, it became more certain. But the message of denial and deception became more bold, more strident and more shameless until the hope of effective action to prevent the Great Collapse became all but lost.

I don’t know how this story ends but I know where it is going and I know who is driving the bus. There is no controversy here except for the one carefully crafted by conservatives who are terrified by what might happen if the public truly understood what is coming.

Oreskes and Conway write, “But as it was, by the early 2000s, dangerous anthropogenic interference in the climate system was under way. Fires, floods, hurricanes and heat waves began to intensify. Still these effects were discounted. Those in what we might call active denial insisted that the extreme weather events reflected natural variability, despite a lack of evidence to support their claim. Those in passive denial continued life as they had been living it, unconvinced that a compelling justification existed for broad changes in industry and infrastructure.”

Looking back from the future, it will be easy to blame the Kochs, the Republicans, the coal, oil and gas companies, Fox News and the conservative think tanks. Their crimes will be damning and clear. What is less clear are the millions of us in passive denial, those of us standing by and watching this disaster unfold as if we had no part in it, as if our children’s horror is not just as much our fault.

The truth cannot be accepted and acted upon when it has been so hopelessly distorted in false controversy. That is how our future historian may come to understand our cowardly impotence. We were afraid to speak out for fear of what others would think. So we went along and watched it all collapse and acted surprised when we realized it was too late.

Mysterious Planet X May Really Lurk Undiscovered in Our Solar System

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Mysterious Planet X May Really Lurk Undiscovered in Our Solar X" might actually exist and so might "Planet Y."At least two planets larger than Earth likely lurk in the dark depths of space far beyond Pluto, just waiting to be discovered, a new analysis of the orbits of "extreme trans-Neptunian objects" .Researchers studied 13 ETNOs frigid bodies such as the dwarf planet Sedna that cruise around the sun at great distances in elliptical paths. [Meet Our Solar System's Dwarf Planets. Theory predicts a certain set of details for ETNO orbits, study team members said. For example, they should have a semi-major axis, or average distance from the sun, of about 150 astronomical units the distance from Earth to the sun roughly 93 million miles, or 150 million kilometers.) These orbits should also have an inclination, relative to the plane of the solar system, of almost 0 degrees, among other the actual orbits of the 13 ETNOs are quite different, with semi-major axes ranging from 150 to 525 AU and average inclinations of about 20 degrees."This excess of objects with unexpected orbital parameters makes us believe that some invisible forces are altering the distribution of the orbital elements of the ETNOs, and we consider that the most probable explanation is that other unknown planets exist beyond Neptune and Pluto," lead author Carlos de la Fuente Marcos, of the Complutense University of Madrid, said in a statement."The exact number is uncertain, given that the data that we have is limited, but our calculations suggest that there are at least two planets, and probably more, within the confines of our solar system," he potential undiscovered worlds would be more massive than Earth, researchers said, and would lie about 200 AU or more from the sun so far away that they'd be very difficult, if not impossible, to spot with current of the cold objects that orbit far from the are discovering trans-Neptunian objects belonging to the Oort Cloud, the most distant region of Earth's solar system. See how the dwarf planets of Sedna and 2012 VP113 stack up in this : By Karl Tate, Infographics ArtistView full size imageThe new results detailed in two papers in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters aren't the first to lend credence to the possible existence of a so-called Planet March 2014, Chadwick Trujillo and Scott Sheppard announced the discovery of 2012 VP113, an ETNO that never gets closer to the sun than 80 AU. 2012 VP113 thus joined Sedna as the two known denizens of the "inner Oort Cloud," a far-flung and largely unexplored region of space beyond the Kuiper Belt (where Pluto lies).Trujillo and Sheppard suggested that the orbits of 2012 VP113 and Sedna are consistent with the continued presence of a big "perturber" perhaps a planet 10 times more massive than Earth that lies 250 AU from the , the pair also stressed that other explanations are possible as well. For example, Sedna and 2012 VP113 may have been pushed out to their present positions by long-ago interactions with other stars in the sun's birth cluster. The objects may also have been nabbed from another solar system during a stellar close encounter.

Comment by casey a on February 19, 2015 at 6:32pm: Same story about Scholz's star, with better headline; relates it to within span of human history. There was another star in the solar system when humans first spread from Africa Link

Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on February 19, 2015 at 12:44am: http://dcraig.blogs.redding.com/2015/02/the-real-controversy-is-tha...

The real controversy is that there is no controversy

February 17, 2015

“I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people’s politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.”

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I am currently reading The Collapse of Western Civilization, A View from the the Future by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway and it got me thinking. The “book” is in fact a mere booklet, a 52-page essay the size of a postcard but it packs a lot in its tiny package. The authors imagine a future historian in the year 2393 looking back on our present time to discern and explain “how we — the children of the Enlightenment — failed to act on robust information about climate change and knowledge of the damaging events that were about to unfold.”

They write:

“Our historian concludes that a second Dark age had fallen on Western civilization, in which denial and self-deception, rooted in an ideological fixation on ‘free’ markets, disabled the world’s powerful nations in the face of tragedy.”

I have thought about this issue on a daily basis for the last nine years and continue to seek new words to express my perplexity. Oreskes and Conway write, “While analysts differ on the exact circumstances, virtually all agree that the people of Western civilization knew what was happening to them but were unable to stop it. Indeed, the most startling aspect of this story is just how much these people knew and how unable to act upon what they knew. Knowledge did not translate into power.”

Or to put it differently, knowledge did not lead to wisdom and without wisdom, the people were lost. How did this happen? As the title of this blog suggests, it was not an accident. The science was and is completely uncontroversial. The accumulated science from the 1950s to the late 1980s led to the uncomplicated understanding that what was long predicted — human-caused global warming — had leaped from the science journals and the climate models and was now present in the world.

Still, what was extremely controversial was the implications of our folly. We had begun to alter the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, the cryosphere and the biosphere. And all blame pointed to human civilization’s addiction to fossil fuels. Oreskes and Conway correctly identify industrialists, bankers and politicians as the culprits in the creation of a cult of denial that soon developed to confuse the consensus and muddy the minds of a conservative portion of the public who were remarkably easy to sway.

As the chart below shows, even as late as 1998, there was very litt... A mere seven points (46-53%) divided Democrats, Independents and Republicans when asked if global warming was already happening. Only fifteen years later, however, the gap quadrupled to 28 percentage points as Republicans reacted to the denial soup they were fed on a constant basis by conservative lies and propaganda disguised as journalism.

From 1998 to 2013, the fix was clear. If you were a Republican, you were taught to distrust science and deny the truth. No evidence was ever given for the denial and happily for the Kochs and ExxonMobil, they discovered their gullible followers were easy to fool. They did not require any proof. They still don’t.

Regarding the cause of temperature increases, the gap between D’s and R’s went from 16 points in 1998 to 39 points in 2013. Twice as many Democrats understood the science than did Republicans. What could account for this except for the successful selling of a lie by a motivated campaign to manipulate perceptions of conservatives?

When asked if global warming would pose a serious threat to you in your lifetime, the gap between D’s and R’s again doubled from 1998 to 2013 from 16 to 32 percent.

Finally, we find that when Republicans were asked in 1998 if the seriousness of global warming was exaggerated by the news about one-third agreed. As they were sauteed in denial sauce for a decade and a half, however, we find the number of GOP deniers nearly doubled to close to two-thirds. The science did not change. If anything, it became more certain. But the message of denial and deception became more bold, more strident and more shameless until the hope of effective action to prevent the Great Collapse became all but lost.

I don’t know how this story ends but I know where it is going and I know who is driving the bus. There is no controversy here except for the one carefully crafted by conservatives who are terrified by what might happen if the public truly understood what is coming.

Oreskes and Conway write, “But as it was, by the early 2000s, dangerous anthropogenic interference in the climate system was under way. Fires, floods, hurricanes and heat waves began to intensify. Still these effects were discounted. Those in what we might call active denial insisted that the extreme weather events reflected natural variability, despite a lack of evidence to support their claim. Those in passive denial continued life as they had been living it, unconvinced that a compelling justification existed for broad changes in industry and infrastructure.”

Looking back from the future, it will be easy to blame the Kochs, the Republicans, the coal, oil and gas companies, Fox News and the conservative think tanks. Their crimes will be damning and clear. What is less clear are the millions of us in passive denial, those of us standing by and watching this disaster unfold as if we had no part in it, as if our children’s horror is not just as much our fault.

The truth cannot be accepted and acted upon when it has been so hopelessly distorted in false controversy. That is how our future historian may come to understand our cowardly impotence. We were afraid to speak out for fear of what others would think. So we went along and watched it all collapse and acted surprised when we realized it was too late.

Comment by Nancy Lieder on February 18, 2015 at 7:26pm: Scholz's Star on the BBC also. Note when describing the "companion" of Scholtz they are essentially describing Nibiru! An unlit brown dwarf traveling with the star. They are also introducing the concept of such a pair interacting with OUR solar system, as the mythical Oort Cloud (which the Zetas say in fact does not exist http://www.zetatalk.com/science/s51.htm) is purported to surround OUR solar system. Next they will say "oh, and we have one right next to our Sol! Just noticed it.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-31519875

The object, a red dwarf known as Scholz's star, cruised through the outer reaches of the Solar System - a region known as the Oort Cloud. Scholz's star was not alone; it was accompanied on its travels by an object known as a brown dwarf. These are essentially failed stars that lacked the necessary mass to get fusion going in their cores. Observations of the dim star's trajectory suggest that 70,000 years ago this cosmic infiltrator passed within 0.8 light years of the Sun.

Comment by KM on February 18, 2015 at 2:41pm: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150217114121.htm

Closest known flyby of star to our solar system: Dim star passed through Oort Cloud 70,000 years ago

Artist's conception of Scholz's star and its brown dwarf companion (foreground) during its flyby of the solar system 70,000 years ago. The Sun (left, background) would have appeared as a brilliant star. The pair is now about 20 light years away.

Comment by Dee Nguyen on February 18, 2015 at 12:42am: This scene of 2 suns was shown for 1 to 2 seconds in The Walking Dead, Season 5 Episode 10. About 5-10 min in the show. I took this photo with my phone while watching it on demand.

Comment by casey a on February 17, 2015 at 2:43am: Mystery Mars haze baffles scientists http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-31491805

Comment by casey a on February 14, 2015 at 5:44am: Obama aide John Podesta says ‘biggest failure’ was not securing the disclosure of UFO files

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/wp/2015/02/13/obama...

Comment by casey a on February 9, 2015 at 9:15pm: For anyone who didnt see it, there was an apocalyptic commercial run during the Super Bowl.

Here are some of the things shown:

- Snow in summer

- Unexpected severe storms excused as a hurricane in nebraska(???)

-"Tsunamis in paris"

- Birds migrating away en mass.

- The homeless apocalyptic bearded man with a "this is the end" sign (that you see in every apocalypse movie).

-Bar tender in denial & still showing up for his job to an empty restaurant.

- Some ppl are just walking about in shock & dont know what to do.

- Guy loots a T.V. in the middle of the mayhem & right in front of a cop. The cop isn't concerned about keeping the rule of law & is more fixed on the coming storm.

- Ppl driving away in panic & running over a pedestrian. Abandoned cars left by the road.

- Fireballs & an asteroid swarm heading to earth.

Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on February 5, 2015 at 9:24pm

http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/196569/Mysterious_Planet_X_...

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Comment by casey a on February 4, 2015 at 2:25am: This is a year old. But what this scientist explains re: mars & meteorite samples is priceless. I hope he gets exposure after disclosure & that he is safe in the meantime.

Former NASA Scientist claims conspiracy about Mars photo

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