As for your second article, well...here is the original image. You judge for yourself. I can make all sorts of claims about images being inverted and mirrored, especially when my target audience knows NOTHING about spacecraft instruments.
His photo collage after that of "Planet X" peeking out from behind the sun shows a flawed understanding of orbital physics. Likely gleaned from hours of watching Star Trek and Star Wars in his parent's basement.
Nibiru is just one of many names for this planet from the Sumerian writings...it means “ferry” or “The planet of the crossing” or something like that. There may be multiple planets- multiple names. The concept of this explaining a connection to another solar system and another race... I find is fascinating.
art work from “Dark Star” aside, it’s an interesting subject to read about. The recent observatories established in Antarctica and now in Hawaii, plus other programs, may provide more hard data.
There certainly is a lot of commonality in the lore of the cultures of early earth, and in prophecy, and it does provide a fantastic wway to interpret some puzzling geological and other evidence. Has there been a polar reversal in the past- why? Will it happen again and why and when? Why are the bodies in the outer solar system warming -are they getting more geologically active? Are we?
Were we visited? Were we colonized? Were we “bred”?
This is one of those times when, if these is any credence to the descriptions of all of this as a cyclical event which will affects us again in our time, we will know one way or another soon enough. Meanwhile it’s interesting to BS about.
People are sure going to be speculating and reading more after the movie “2012” comes out this summer. Will this planet “X” become more visible by the same time this summer, as was written here? Maybe we’ll know this summer!
Meanwhile scientists are stockpiling those Noah’s arks with seeds- and maybe other stuff, too.
http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/2012/
Planet Vulcan found?In fact, among the most recently discovered extrasolar planets is one that has been linked directly to Star Trek. Astronomers at the McDonald Observatory in Austin, Texas, announced earlier this month that they have detected a planet orbiting Epsilon Eridani, which is 10.5 light-years from Earth and the closest star yet showing evidence of a solar system. Epsilon Eridani has been identified in some Star Trek literature as the home of planet Vulcan.
8/31/2000 Science Roundup
from the Star Trek Official website
What makes this story more interesting from a Star Trek perspective is that the discovery was made by a team led by Dr. William Cochran of the University of Texas. It was Dr. Cochran's near-namesake, Dr. Zefram Cochrane, who was the first human to meet a member of the Vulcan species in "Star Trek: First Contact."
The planet found by the Texas team is a gas giant slightly larger than Jupiter with a stable orbit similar in radius to that of the asteroid belt in our own solar system. With the planet lying that distance from its star, the possibility is raised that Earth-like (Class M) planets could exist closer to Epsilon Eridani, in a zone Cochran said might be habitable...
Epsilon Eridani was identified as the Vulcan sun in the "Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology" published in 1980. However, other writings--including a letter from Gene Roddenberry and three astrophysicists to Sky & Telescope magazine in 1991--suggest that Eridani 40 is a likelier candidate for the honor. (It should be noted that the Vulcan sun has never been officially identified in the Star Trek series, so neither should be considered canon.)
About 50 extrasolar planets have been detected so far by astronomers measuring wobbles in the movement of their parent stars. No such planets have been observed directly, but NASA plans to launch two new space-based telescopes dedicated to the pursuit of Earth-like planets in 2013, in a project called the Terrestrial Planet Finder.
