M.J. Rose

Incredible news for folks who believe we may have been visited in ancient times by extraterrestrials: A pair of planets orbiting a 12.5 billion-year old star was recently discovered. This discovery defies conventional wisdom that the earliest stars to be born in the Universe shouldn’t possess planets at all!

Could these planets be homes for ancient aliens?

COULD ANCIENT ALIENS LIVE ON METHUSELAH PLANETS?

Analysis by Ray Villard

The announcement of a pair of planets orbiting a 12.5 billion-year old star flies in the face of conventional wisdom that the earliest stars to be born in the Universe shouldn’t possess planets at all.

12.5 billion years ago, the primeval universe was just beginning to make heavier elements beyond hydrogen and helium, in the fusion furnace cores of the first stars. It follows that there was very little if any material for fabricating terrestrial worlds or the rocky seed cores of gas giant planets.

This argument has been used to automatically rule out the ancient and majestic globular star clusters that orbit our galaxy as intriguing homes for extraterrestrials.

The star that was announced to have two planets is not in a globular cluster (it lives inside the Milky Way, although it was most likely a part of a globular cluster that was cannibalized by our galaxy), but it is similarly anemic as the globular cluster stars because it is so old.

This discovery dovetails nicely with last year’s announcement of carbon found in a distant, ancient radio galaxy. These findings both suggest that there were enough heavy elements in the early universe to make planets around stars, and therefore life…

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The case for dark matter is seriously dwindling, so what should we think is taking up all that mysterious extra space in the universe if it’s not dark matter? Hmmmm…

Serious blow to dark matter theories? New study finds mysterious lack of dark matter in Sun’s neighborhood

(Phys.org) — The most accurate study so far of the motions of stars in the Milky Way has found no evidence for dark matter in a large volume around the Sun. According to widely accepted theories, the solar neighbourhood was expected to be filled with dark matter, a mysterious invisible substance that can only be detected indirectly by the gravitational force it exerts. But a new study by a team of astronomers in Chile has found that these theories just do not fit the observational facts. This may mean that attempts to directly detect dark matter particles on Earth are unlikely to be successful….

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There is a new documentary that is attempting to solve one of the most intriguing mysteries in the world. Suzanne Taylor’s documentary What On Earth? Inside The Crop Circle Mystery won the Best Feature Documentary Award at the UFO Congress Film Festival. For more than twenty years, Taylor has been part of the international community that gathers in England to study and document circle developments. Collectively, the group’s members are known as “croppies.”

Watch the trailer below –

WHAT ON EARTH? – crop circle movie trailer from Suzanne Taylor on Vimeo.

For more:

What on Earth? websites:
http://www.CropCircleMovie.com

http://Facebook.com/WhatOnEarth

Trailer:
http://vimeo.com/22537956

Hi-res crop circle photos:
http://TheConversation.org/movie-images