Barack Obama began the chant with the question, “Are you ready for change” and then the follow up “YES, We Can!” It’s obvious that the three largest space exploration agencies in the world (NASA, EAS, JAXA) are sensing change: changes! All of the planets in our solar system are undergoing major changes! We’re being impacted by the sun which is being impacted- by what? Are we ready for change? I don’t think so- not this kind!

Janice Manning wrote, “Since 2000 there is clear evidence of a new sense of urgency in the launch of space missions. The observations made by these probes are telling us that something is changing or is about to change.” And we’re not talking politics!

Planet X or Nibiru (as the Sumerians called it) is a brown dwarf and therefore most difficult to spot. A brown dwarf has been compared to a smoldering charcoal briquette- touch it and you’ll get burned. In essence a brown dwarf has enough mass to ignite for a short time, it wasn’t large enough to trigger the fusion of hydrogen that keeps stars shining for eternity: or a very long time.

This is one of the reasons we’re sending so many space probes “out there” as well as “inward” where the sun’s activities are being monitored. Five of the last seven major space probe launches (outward) have concentrated on infrared and near infrared capabilities: just what’s needed to discover the heat from any brown dwarfs.

It seems that an asteroid collision is our least of worries.

For the conspiracy theorists like Richard Hoagland and John Maynard, IRAS, The Infrared Astronomical Satellite, that was launched in 1983 by the US, UK, and Netherlands is a suspicious event. Shortly after mapping 96 of the sky, IRAS discovered a massive heat bloom. NASA said there was a malfunction in IRAS, shut it down, but then secretly brought it back up so we could have the information all to ourselves.

Who would do such a thing? Not our very own NASA!

Adding to the intrigue is why we went to such great lengths, resources, and expense to build the SPT (South Pole Telescope) in the harshest of conditions when building it in the tip of Chile would have been more reasonable. Again, conspiracy theorists say this location is best to track where some believe Planet X can be monitored, especially in the event that we lose our space based observatories.

It appears that while the public is only thinking about political change, and I am all for that, ancient civilizations have been telling us for dozens of centuries that a BIG CHANGE is coming in 2012. Let’s hope hope we’re ready and capable to handle whatever changethat might bring. After all, we have four years to get ready!

I’m not going to go as deep or as far as Richard Hoagland has and does in his book, Dark Mission: The Secret History Of NASA”, but I do want to raise some questions. Hoagland is a former NASA consultant and CBS News adviser who now runs an independent NASA watchdog and research group (Enterprise Mission). Is SOHO more than about pretty pictures or are you familiar with SOHO at all?

SOHO stands for the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory satellite. Remember?

When it was launched in 1995, it was billed as a project to provide us with the most detailed data of the nature of the solar wind. Why solar winds? The sensitive mass spectrometer aboard SOHO can make measurements of the trace constituents such as isotopes of silicon, sulfur, calcium, shromium, iron and nickel in the solar wind. They also detected isotopes of neon and argon which had not been detected by earlier satellites, but had been observed from the moon twenty years before during the Apollo lunar landings.

And?

The question is can we get advanced notice of building sun spots, when the face of the sun starts to acquire a bad case of acne that potentially poisons our planet? Before coronal mass ejections (CME’s) occur, can we know that? Can we control the sun? Good luck! And why are we so concerned about sun spots? Can you say our present security and future life on earth? Let me explain.

Our present security could evaporate in a future 2012 (or sooner) X sun spot explosion as recent 2004-05 have warned us. We rely upon satellites to guide our missiles, be our eyes from above, and provide us with instant information. Almost ALL military and defense satellites are sun-sensitive. By knowing when the next outburst is to come, what could we do? Most people have not a clue as to how many satellites we have out there and how important they are to our daily lives. What would we do without SIRIUS?

The best information I could find indicates that 25,000 man-made objects: 8681 currently in orbit, and over 16,000 objects in a state of decay. Russia leads the list in decayed objects (with a debris count close to 10,000) and comes in a close second (3897) to the United States (4018) for currently orbiting objects. Another NASA secret.

But SOHO was just the first entry into the field of trying to figure out how dangerous solar flares could be. And with the LOW SUN SPOT CYCLE in 2005 being 30-50% more than normal, a HIGH SUNSPOT CYCLE in 2012 by the same 30-50% greater could greatly change ALL of life here on earth.

Three years after SOHO was launched, TRACE (Transition Region and Corona Explorer) was launched. It was-is a NASA space telescope designed to investigate the connections between fine-scale magnetic fields and the associated plasma structures on the Sun by providing high resolution images and observation of the solar photosphere and transition region to the corona. Why is that so important?

Duh!

In 2002 RHESSI was launched to provide X-ray images of solar flares.
In 2003 SORCE was launched to explore solar effects on earth.
In 2006 STEREO was launched (two satellites-ie. stereo!) to study CME’s.

Coincidentally, NASA’s STEREO satellite captured the first images ever of a collision between a solar hurricane, called a coronal mass ejection (CME), and a comet. The collision caused the complete detachment of the comet’s plasma tail. You can get some great graphics if you’ll just Google STEREO.

If we won’t get serious about the catastrophic events to protect our planet in 2012- and before, maybe the military consequences (if we don’t) will awaken us to our planetary stewardship responsibilities. But, the question remains, what does NASA know that they’re not saying? Or, am I just being suspicious and conspiratorial in attitude?