The intrigue is definitely building. What are we looking for out there in the deep and dark space? Surely we don’t suspect a Planet X, Nibiru, or the likes to be out there and headed in this direction. Tell me that’s NOT what this is about. I can understand the secrecy behind X-37B, but what’s up with Sophia? Are you wondering about all of this as well?

Looking somewhat like a traditional shuttle but at roughly one-quarter the size, the unmanned X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle took off for its maiden space voyage from Cape Canaveral in Florida and reached a low earth orbit late in the day. The X-37B is intended to serve as a platform for experiments and to offer insights on transporting satellite sensors and other equipment to and from space.

So they say!

As part of this initial mission, the Air Force will evaluate the X-37B’s guidance, navigation, thermal protection, and unmanned operations in orbit, re-entry, and landing. It will function in space like other satellites, with operators on Earth monitoring its travels. Eventually, the Air Force will tell the space plane to head home. But no one knows when we will bring it back home.

Then on Tuesday, NASA offered the first media tour of the world’s largest airborne observatory.

The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) is a former Pan Am Boeing 747 carrying a 40,000-pound, 98-inch-diameter German-made infrared telescope. A massive hatch opens in flight to allow the telescope to do its work. And just what work is that? At a time when we’re in trouble financially, why are we sending this experiment into space at a cost of say $15,000 an hour. Tell me again, why is this so important when we’re cutting back on other space programs?

SOFIA is expected to capture its first infrared images in flight in six to eight weeks.

Let’s see infrared cameras that can see in the dark: see things that we’re not capable of seeing here on earth. And just what are they looking for? Let me ask a couple of what seem to be reasonable questions. Could we be looking for a brown dwarf, an approaching meteorite, or some small but destructive fly-by planet? Could our X-37B carry weaponry that we hope could shoot down, deter, or change the course of such an object?

Surely I’m just wildly guessing. Right?

When someone talks about earthquakes of an American fashion, all eyes focus on California. Is there a more famous earthquake than the San Andreas Fault? How about the Alaskan version? On Good Friday, March 27, 1964, an earthquake with a magnitude of 9.2 struck Prince William Sound, Alaska. This earthquake is the third largest recorded in the world. Within the first 24 hours, there were 11 aftershocks and with a magnitude greater than 6.0 and 9 more took place over the next few weeks.

But could there be an earthquake in the middle of these United States? How about a little history!

On December 16, 1811, an 8.1 earthquake with an epicenter in northeast Arkansas hit. It caused only slight damage to man-made structures, mainly because of the sparse population in the epicentral area. The future location of Memphis, Tennessee was shaken at Mercalli level nine intensity. Large waves were generated on the Mississippi River by fissures opening and closing below the surface. Local uplifts of the ground and water waves moving upstream gave the illusion that the river was flowing upstream.

Talk about optical illusions!

At New Madrid, trees were knocked down and riverbanks collapsed. This event shook windows and furniture in Washington, D.C., rang bells in Richmond, Virginia, sloshed well water and shook houses in Charleston, South Carolina, and knocked plaster off of houses in Columbia, South Carolina. In Jefferson, Indiana, furniture moved and in Lebanon, Ohio, residents fled their homes. Observers in Herculaneum, Missouri, called it “severe” and claimed it had a duration of 10–12 minutes.

So much for the history books other than to say two more major 7-8 power earthquakes hit (each a month apart) and did great damage.

Thus we have what is called the New Madrid Seismic Zone, sometimes called the New Madrid Fault Line, is a major seismic zone and a prolific source of intra-plate earthquakes (earthquakes within a tectonic plate) in the Southern and Midwestern United States stretching to the southwest from New Madrid, Missouri. For some reason my “inner voice” is telling me that while the San Andreas fault is the first choice for one of the two major earthquakes predicted for America in 2010, the New Madrid fault just might be the second one.

Ah, there’s just a little over eight months to judge if that’s the case. Hey, for me, it beats watching Dancing With The Stars!

Mars is generally been the answer given when one asks, what’s another name for the RED planet. However, as we move closer to December 21, 2012 another name comes to mind- Hercolubus! Bear with me as I review this Planet X, if you will, that seemingly just won’t go away as December 21, 2012 approaches. How many names this pending disastrous planet has is amazing. More often than not, it’s been called Nibiru.

Zecharia Sitchin has garnered much attention among ufologists, ancient astronaut theorists and conspiracy theorists. He claims to have uncovered, through his retranslations of Sumerian texts, evidence that the human race was visited by a group of extraterrestrials from a distant planet in our own Solar System. Part of his theory lies in an astronomical interpretation of the Babylonian creation myth, the Enuma Elish, in which he replaces the names of gods with hypothetical planets.

Say What?

Yeah, I know it gets a little crazy; however, one of the latets “editions” to the 10th planet thinking comes from a man who died ten years ago- V.M. Rabolu. He was born in 1926 in Colombia in a simple and humble family. In 1952 he found the true spiritual Knowledge whilst in the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta (Colombia). That led him to writing a book, before his death in 2000, Hercolubus or Red Planet. It’s the same story line as those associated with Planet X , Nibiru, etc. Anyone can order the book for FREE from the Alcione Association.

Got some spare reading time?

An interesting twist though is that Rabolu feels that we can be transformed, have a leap in consciousness and have our spirits lifted from this earthly plane before the stuff hits the fan; otherwise, Rabolu says, “During the cataclysm, humans will become mentally unbalanced, and will not be able to eat or sleep.” Talk about an understatement. I wonder what the next theory might be?

Better yet, when will we be able to actually SEE this planet? Obviously if a planet is out there and coming here in the next 2+ years, it has to show up on the radar screen soon. Or, has it already? Do the powers that BE already know about this? Is that why America is building the underground military bunkers, why Russia is building the huge civil defense shelters, and why China is building the quarter million occupant shelters. Is the concern about a nuclear war or something more ominous?

These are interesting times, aren’t they?