M.J. Rose

We’re sorry but the apocalypse has been cancelled due to mass misunderstanding of ancient messages:

Ancient Mayan workshop for astronomers discovered

(THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)

This undated image made available by National Geographic shows four long numbers on the north wall of a ruined house related to the Maya calendar and computations about the moon, sun and possibly Venus and Mars; the dates stretch some 7,000 years into the future.

Archaeologists have found a small room in Mayan ruins where royal scribes apparently used walls like a blackboard to keep track of astronomical records and the society’s intricate calendar some 1,200 years ago.

The walls reveal the oldest known astronomical tables from the Maya. Scientists already knew they must have been keeping such records at that time, but until now the oldest known examples dated from about 600 years later….

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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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From the gloriously odd website Tales of Curiosity, comes a short film about fairies.

Click the image below and enjoy!