Alien life deemed impossible by analysis of 500 planets

From Kepler's website, it looks like there are two confirmed planet that are Earth sized (~1.5x).

I’m oddly reminded of Space Quest 5, where one of the ways you can die is from screwing around in a rescue pod, and running out of gas.

The death scene is inspired as you are treated to two alien lovers gazing on the heavens and making a wish on the shooting star that you produce as you are incinerated in the atmosphere.

The lover wishes that they would find another being in the heavens, and the other lover says, that it’s silly because everyone knows there’s no intelligent life out there.

ATS & VARIOUS GLEANINGS

WORTH THE BOTHER,
imho.

from:

ATS LIVE: 41: Constitution Null and Void? Special Guest Tonight!, [from 22 JAN]

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread654199/pg1

ATS LIVE: 41: Constitution Null and Void? Special Guest Tonight!, page 1

Join the ATS LIVE crew for a jam packed episode discussing the hot button topics of today.

This week we'll be discussing the Constitution, is it null and void? with a Special guest interview, other possible topics include chemtrails, guns, comets and cold fusion.

ATS Live would love to hear from you about our show and the topics we discuss - especially live on air! So call in and get your voice heard around the world on the radio!

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Be sure to join us in the ATS Chat Room as well during the show, and get your views heard.

FROM:

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread651994/pg1

Christians are becoming social pariahs in Britain, claims BBC presenter Jeremy Vine , page 1

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FROM:

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread654356/pg1

Interesting Inside Information On Dollar Devaluation, page 1

This is very interesting.

Of course, it is all unsourced so take it worth a grain of salt, but I wouldn’t doubt this scenario to be true.

George lays out a scenario for the Fed rigging the markets in order to swap US dollar holdings for foreign currency, then letting the dollar implode.

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FROM:

http://www.ufodigest.com/article/national-hero-and-sixth-man-walk-moon-comes-clean

National Hero and sixth man to walk on the Moon comes clean

Submitted by Frank Abreu on Sat, 08/28/2010 - 10:18

“A national hero and the sixth man to walk on the moon said that your government and others have been in contact with ET’s for over 67 years. That’s an incredible statement. It was buried on page seven the next day in the NY Post…” Commercial Airline Pilot, Jim Courant

The statement above brought it into focus for me. If you want the “Truth” you have to go out and look for it. Our government has learned how to keep “Secrets” successfully for a very long time. But there are a handful of “Patriots” like Apollo astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell a scientists in his own right,(6^th man to walk on the Moon) that believe this knowledge should be made public and therefore taking the control away from the Government and giving it to the people. Knowledge is power; power is to be managed with restraint, caution, accountability and honesty. The U.S. Government doesn’t think we can handle the truth, who are they to think what we can handle or not? We know one thing for sure they can’t handle themselves.

. . .

The truth to me is so obviously clear that I sit and often wonder how many people are “clueless” to the fact that we have been living amongst ET’s for so long now. I have noticed that the 20 something’s that are the future of our beautiful country are tuned in, and my daughter who is 25 said, “ Dad, you know all those History Channel, Science Channel, TLC Channel shows you tape and watch over and over?” I said, “Yeah, what about it?” “Well all my friends have their TV sets stuck on those channels and that all they watch and talk about.” What she said resonated within me. I thought to myself, you know, when I was 25, was I really paying attention to what was going on in the world because I was just starting a family etc. I don’t know, but I realized that my daughters generation is paying attention and being a lot more open to believing the seemingly impossible things that are now being “Disclosed” as fact on a daily basis. Don’t believe me? Check for yourself, in the last 5 years I realized that everything they taught me in High School about science, math, physics, were all wrong! Especially our History books in my day. There have been not only more UFO sightings than any other time in written history worldwide lately. There have also been more movies, TV, Cable, programming on the Paranormal, Physics, How the Universe Works, UFO Hunters, Psychic Kids, Monster Quest, etc. etc. on TV and pounding it to whoever will listen. More countries are coming out and releasing their UFO classified files. They want transparency but the USA wants the control.

Physics in the public sector is just starting to make sense of some of these new discoveries and old discoveries but new disclosures on them. We are on the verge of discovering a live “Sasquatch” on B.C. Island. I just feel it coming fast and furious. They have found evidence of a huge population of the humanoid like ape creatures there, and being on an island makes the scientists work a lot easier. Not to forget to mention all of the new gadgetry that exist now for scientists, that were locked behind Military and Government control for years are now becoming available to the private sector for a price.

The Sumerians and the Mayans for example tried to document as best they could what was going on in their time on this planet. If we don’t “Pay attention” to what they wrote down, we will not learn any lessons, and I believe that is why we are here, to learn the truth and nothing but the truth, and we all know what the “Truth” does to you right?

[whole article at the link at the top of it]

FROM:

http://devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/11515/ufos-digging-our-nukes-is-not-news/?pa=all&tc=pgall

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The mainstream media's lonely UFO web log

January 21st, 2011 12:46pm

UFOs digging our nukes is not news

by Billy Cox

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A few weeks ago, Frank Warren, who runs a Web site out of Sacramento called The UFO Chronicles, interviewed another retired USAF officer with a national-security secret. This guy was on launch-control duty at a Midwestern nuclear missile silo in the Sixties when a UFO buzzed the bunker he was assigned to and scared the spit out of topside security.

. . .

Stories like these are becoming increasingly common. In his 2008 book UFOs and Nukes, New Mexico researcher Robert Hastings talked with military veterans who’ve placed UFOs stalking America’s A-bomb factories since the 1940s, from Hanford to Oak Ridge. Some 120 have shared their stories, and last September he brought seven of them together for a press conference in Washington.

Anyhow, during his efforts to verify the latest eyewitness account, Warren went noodling through the online USAF archives of the ancient and largely discredited Project Blue Book. And he found something he hadn’t bargained for — documentation of yet another UFO incursion at yet another missile field, and it wasn’t the one he was looking for.

[continued at the link above]

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FROM:

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread654445/pg1

TITLE ONLY . . . THREAD AT ATS:

Wake up America: You're being herded into socialism/communism...stop thinking as an animal of prey , page 1

FROM:

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread654424/pg1

ATS THREAD AT ABOVE LINK:
UFO photographed by Hungarian Military pilot.

YOU TUBE LINK TO VIDEO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zYHZnj7S3Y

PIC FROM ARTICLE:

CLOSE UP:

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FROM:

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread654171/pg1

SOURCE

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?11819-Strange-Thing-in-Russian-Skies-%28photos%29-January-20-2011

PICS FROM THE ARTICLE:

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FROM:

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread654220/pg1

Caught Red Handed! USDA Bee Extinction Study Kept Secret!,

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FROM:

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread654316/pg1

The reality of underground bases, page 1 [SKEPTICAL ORIGINAL POST]

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FROM:

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread653855/pg1

High-ranking members of US military part of 'Knights of Malta,' 'Opus Dei,' reporter claims, page 1

Veteran investigative reporter Seymour Hersh has broken some massive stories in his day, but uncovering secret societies within the highest echelons of America's military would probably be the biggest of his career.

Well, get ready for the media storm: That's essentially what Hersh told an audience in Doha, Qatar recently, according to a report published earlier this week by Foreign Policy.

...He further claimed that Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Vice Admiral William McRaven and others in the JSOC were members of the "Knights of Malta" and "Opus Dei," two little known Catholic orders.

SOURCE LINK:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/highranking-members-military-part-knights-malta-opus-dei-reporter-claims/ .
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FROM:

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread654254/pg1

MORE PROOF that they intend to create a disaster, and that they know something!!!, page 1

More proof included in this video, the 4th part to a series, by YT user: PatrioticSpace

YOUTUBE VID LINK:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaKMGx39UeM

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FROM:

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread654459/pg1

Dr. Bill Deagle - Animal Die-Offs, Earth In Peril , page

I just started listening and so far, not good. But keeping in mind, this is just ONE more person with ONE more opinion who has a platform to speak to many. So we gotta take it for what it's worth.

I will edit this OP with a recap in a bit

SOURCE YOUTUBE VID LINK:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EQQZq1xP2M&hl

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FROM:

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread650721/pg1

DEALING WITH COPS, UNDERSTANDING YOUR RIGHTS, BY A COP

[it's a good thread worth reading the OP of--Quix]

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FROM:

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread654438/pg1

UFO FLEET HOVERS OVER PITTSBURGH - Most funny commentary , page 1

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FROM:

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread605611/pg1

Michio Kaku comments UFOs and Leslie Kean's book - Aug 23, 2010

DATS ALL THE GLEANINGS FOR TONIGHT . . . I THINK. THX.

Really? Of the confirmed observations I see one at 5x which is believed to be rocky. So that would be the smallest, and also the first which is closer to Earth’s size than any other.

Wow.

I'll state for the record that those are *not* airplane contrails.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

HERE'S ANOTHER INTERESTING ITEM FROM AN EMAIL:

Hi,

Here is a message received tonight from a reliable source.

The letter mentioned below was quoted on Steve Quayle’s latest video as well but I had not seen the link that the person who wrote the letter noted. Very interesting link for everyone to see.

Thought you might find this interesting...

Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2011 4:33 PM
Subject: strangeness

at the WuJo
Coping: Tearing Apart the World, Part I
Welcome to the WuJo! This is where we take apart fact and theory so we can re-weave it into a closer approximation of objective reality than might otherwise be had by simply accepting all the ideas floating around in the netosphere unchallenged.

The facts we line up this morning are these:

* We identified a ‘band’ of earthquake activity roughly described by a trans-equatorial orbit which covers a great deal of the earth’s recent quakes, including the recent 7.4 in Pakistan, the strange activity in the Gulf Aden, the increased activity down around Indonesia, and so forth. Not that we ascribe earthquake activity to anything orbiting, and it may all just be the appearance, but the trans-equatorial track is there (goes over China, too before swinging south again) if one looks at the data. (Maps in Peoplenomics #489A under “Shaky New Year, Redux.)

Link is not available without password:
http://www.peoplenomics.com/inside/nl20110103.htm

* Also in that report, we touched on the great African Rift which is threatening to fly open which would cause all kinds of problems, not the least of which would be steam if the Gulf of Aden were to start pouring into the widening rift. This morning’s headline that ought to bring the possibility more to front-of-mind is found at Before It’s News under the headline “Violent Seismic Activity Tearing Africa in Two.”

http://beforeitsnews.com/story/367/739/Violent_Seismic_Activity_Tearing_Africa_in_Two.html

# Next (like this isn’t enough?) we had the stories about the Tampa Airport runway renumbering project. See “North Pole shifting causes RIA to renumber runways.”

http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/dpp/news/local/hillsborough/north-pole-shifting-causes-tia-to-renumber-runways-01062011

Admittedly, this is “oldish” news, but we’re weaving all this into a new mat at here at the WuJo, so hang in there.
# Next, we pause for an objective bit of science. The following is an animated .GIF file, borrowed from Wikipedia:
#
What’s interesting about this particular animated .GIF file? Well, it shows us something extremely pertinent to our discussion of earth changes. I assume you know that there are isogonic lines of force that run from the magnetic north pole to the south? Think of these as “the lines a compass align themselves to when pointing north. Remember: Local North is not always the same as True North. This .GIF file shows that the zero line for the North American declination (the variance from True North measured by a magnet is where lately? We see a huge variation in Magnetic North up through the 1600’s, but check out where that line is today? Right off the east coast of Florida.

* And THAT is where things start to get precisely UGLY. Because the location of the zero offset from True North isogonic line seems to run either very close to - or right at - where the government is about to shut down the Global Positioning System (GPS) for unspecified testing. And we quote from the Jan 19, 2011 Notices to Airmen Advisory right off the FAA’s Flight Safety webiste as follows:
o The Department of Defense will conduct GPS tests on January 20th through February 22nd, 2011. During testing, the GPS signal may be unreliable or unavailable.
o A. Location: Centered at 304906N/0802811W or the location know as 105.25 degrees and 52.1 NM from the SSI VOR.
o B. Dates and times: GPS testing is scheduled on January 20th through February 11th, 2011 from 0000-0245 UTC daily and February 15th through February 22nd, 2011 from 0000-0245 UTC daily. These tests may not be concurrent so pilots are advised to check NOTAMS frequently for possible changes prior to operating in the area.
o C. Duration: Several test events will be conducted and will be active for 45 minutes followed by 15 minutes of off time.
o D. During testing, GPS will be unreliable and may be unavailable with in a circle with a radius of 370NM and centered at 304906N/0802811W or the location known as 105.25 degrees and 52.1 NM from the SSI VOR at FL400; decreasing in area with a decrease in altitude to a circle with a radius of 325NM at FL250; a circle with a radius of 260NM at 10,000FT MSL and a circle with a radius of 215NM at 4,000FT AGL.
o E. Pilots are highly recommended to report anomalies during testing to the appropriate ARTCC to assist in the determination of the extent of GPS degradation during tests.
* And the map area? As I said, suspiciously like it’s close to the zero magnetic deviation line in the magnetic lines of force animation above:

See graphic map here:
http://theintelhub.com/2011/01/20/faa-warns-of-ongoing-gps-issues-in-southeastern-us-due-to-defense-department-tests/

Now, even all this would not have gotten my attention under most cases, except for this email purporting to be from a reader who...well...a few things redacted for privacy concerns, but you’ll get the idea:

“George:

I have debated with myself most of the day about sending you the following, but NASA knows what is going on and Hubby works for [redacted] and he says something is “fixing” to happen, much sooner than later. So here goes.

Sorry to be contributing to your overcrowded in-box two days in a row but I feel I should warn you that Hubby told me this morning we should be making preparations to leave for our safe house in the Wyoming mountains. This means submitting resignations that become effective at the end of the day! We live in a condominium so we will just lock the door and drive away, more than likely never to return. Our Chevy Suburban with 4x4 drive, dual gas tanks, off-road tires, heavy duty winch, souped up engine designed for pulling a RV,etc., etc. was purchased with just this scenario in mind. We are both licensed SEL pilots but do not trust our beloved [aircraft type] as Hubby says winds are going to play a huge factor in what is coming. Best to stay out of the air and off the water. And besides, we want our reliable new Suburban with us at all times from now on as it is much more practical for what is ahead.

George, it appears the smelly stuff is not to far away from the whirling giant blades at this point. Hubby left this (see below) on my desktop this morning with a message simply stating “time to hit the road”. I talked to him again a little while ago and asked if he was still serious about this and he said he was writing out his resignation as he was talking to me, but probably won’t matter one way or the other. He says it is getting somewhat tense around the [ redacted] office. He doesn’t know if the following article

<http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1439.htm>

is to blame or everything the powers have been struggling to conceal - the truth about coming earth changes, the economy, and everything else - is about to be revealed. Regardless, his intuition tells him to be in the mountains just in case. He is a big believer in following “hunches” as I am.

Something is definitely going on and all of a sudden - out of the blue, clear sky - as the George Strait song goes, we are about to take the first step in trying to survive whatever the hell is about to hit us. We will be leaving [date] for Wyoming and probably will drive straight through, taking turns napping and driving. In a perverse kind of way, this is becoming exciting....besides we love Wyoming just as we do Texas.

Note: ( I toyed with this for awhile). The state of Texas is not a safe place to be George, not even the Davis mountains according to Hubby or that is where we would be headed because we love it out there. The further away from the ocean the better he says. God be with you and yours.
Now, whether this letter is a clear warning or is just a reader sending a “something to freak out George’s monkey-mind” ought to be clear soon enough. But remember our local “earthquake sensitive” sees stuff ahead, too.

And I assume you saw where George Lucas’ remarks about 2012 are now being rewritten in the MSM as “George Lucas was just kidding about that End of the World Thing.” Kidding - or leaking - that’s a judgment call for you to make.

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/entertainment/movies/George-Lucas-Was-Just-Kidding-About-That-End-of-the-World-Thing-114294859.html

But just remember that one of the apparent ‘rules’ by which the PTB seem to operate is that there is some kind of advance disclosure ‘law’ governing how they behave; It may also be a management-level tenant of the rewritten version of Christianity (Origin is what some Stargate <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate#SG-1> fans call it [another example of hiding truth in plain sight?]) that came out of the First Council of Nicaea..<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea>

.but that’s a too-long-and-too-weird-for-here discussion...although the aware might see how Isis <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis> followers might have woven a certain mother-figure into the early church dogma...(no emails on this, please; ankhs for asking - or is that a censor?).

One more morsel from my recent research forays into religion and magnetism? Is the Egyptian ‘the Djed’** <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djed> (the second most common magical implement in ancient magick/craft work) a linguistic leak close to ‘the Jedi’? <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi> Now think about the extremely intelligent fellow who produced Star Wars we were just talking about a minute ago...Intentional clues, hidden in plain sight....your guess is as good as mine, of course...still...
** From Steve Preston’s “A Closer Look at Ancient History, Book 6, page 257 “Don’t believe for a moment that Egyptians just made up this unusual artifact. In ancient Sumeria we can find the same item drawn and etched on walls.” And from page 261: “The Djed somehow made the user able to ride in the ‘levitating god-star’”.

Thus, it’s not a huge stretch for me to tentatively figure that someone wielding this Djed thing would be a what? A Jedi maybe?

Back to point: Just from the old newsman’s “news nose knows news” if I were making bets, I’d wager the Defense Department tests are to update software on the GPS constellation in order to do “testing” is one hell of an oddly timed event.

What? Tampa gets renumbered, a local sunrise is “off”, Africa is tearing apart and Tony Ring’s quake data has shown a major increase in what over the past six months?

I’m not certain what’s going on, but if I were guessing, I’d bet there’s some fancy new code going up on the birds to adjust carrier phase tracking of the GPS units so that few people on the ground notice differences in time (earth rotational spin) and location drift which might be noticed using differential GPS or wide area augmentation system-enhanced aviation models.

Cool thing bout GPS is people have come to rely on it to a very large extent. So if you’re planning to do any flying in the Southeast USA in the NOTAM period, might want to at least be aware that the airplane you’re on might not be making a GPS (WAAS) IFR approach - might be back on the dual VOR’s.

Oh, one more thing (I’ll mutter in my best imitation of Peter Falk acting his Colombo role: “There’s just one last thing, mothers me, ma’mn...”).

The last signals from the other radiolocation system which might have given away the store was LORAN.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LORAN>

It’s last signals were transmitted in the US and Canada last year.

OK, enough of this weirdness. I think I’ll go watch the painting of the tape - just one more day to get past options expiration and then next week. Which might not be pretty...more tomorrow for Peoplenomics.com subscribers...

My Great Grandfather Ike Knew about UFO and Alien visits to Earth

Awwwww shucks

Are you sure your glasses don’t need cleaned! LOL.

Here’s a shocking space shot of the Java coast line with 20’ or so sunk below water.

http://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/confirmed-20-foot-elevation

THANKS THANKS.

I’ve posted at least some of that on FR a few times.

10,000 cattle dead in VietNam . . . harsh winter blamed.

I’m oddly reminded of Space Quest 5, where one of the ways you can die is from screwing around in a rescue pod, and running out of gas.

That sound a lot like the classic science-fiction story "The Cold Equations." A Newtonian tragedy.

If you calculate the odds that we have arrived where we have by chance, you'll arrive at number that virtually guarantees its impossibility. But let's assume it happened anyway. To find, then, what the odds are that this has happened twice, you have to multiply the first set of odds by itself and so on for each different occurrence you posit. So the likelihood, as likelihood is actually figured in real science, militates against anything like we've seen on this planet ever happening again, much less in such a way that results in a "universe that is teeming with life."

Problem is, the universe looks darned big, infinite almost.

Roll a trillion dice, infinite number of times, and the odds of them coming up all 6's an infinite number of times is 100%.

Dr Smith said the extreme conditions found so far on planets discovered outside out Solar System are likely to be the norm.

Dr. Smith has a problem: The planets we are capable of detecting are usually gas giants.

Once we can see the smaller ones, the Doctor's opinion might need to change.

WOULD APPRECIATE INPUT FROM Y’ALL.

I suspect that many of us are finding ourselves busier than before.

I don’t know how many or which of you would still like to be on my small group of sounding board/consultants. ping list.

Feel free to FREEPMAIL me or tell me here. No sweat either way. I have no need to bother people who are already plenty bothered by the rest of real life.

THX IN ADVANCE.

It’s large, but bounded.

Don’t think in such narrow terms. Life does NOT need oxygen
or even an atmosphere. Nor does all life even need moderate tempertures. Perhaps SOME life on earth does however there have been many discoveries of life even here on earth living in extreme environments

Please listen to this C2C link . . .

Steve Quayle insists that several folks from Catalina Island called him and firmly stated that they personally

saw that MISSILE come out of the water.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftXCqSU4kfw

Yes, there are bacteria, and tube worms. And even anaerobic bacteria living in my GI tract.

Got anything more complex?

If higher life forms existed, there's that theory of how *our* Moon
helped get beyond Newton and advance with Einstein - full
solar eclipses provides wonderful opportunities for study.

BTB, there's a [recent] time lapse sequence from a Mars rover of
a solar eclipse on Mars. A Mars moon can't quite cut it.

Thanks for the ping!

Until we actually observe the raw chemical elements and their synthesis into amino acids, all hypothesis on the probability of such an event is conjectural.
***That’s exactly what the probabilities were based upon, observing the raw chemical elements and their synthesis into amino acids.