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Authors: Andy Lloyd
The Dark Star: The Planet X Evidence
by Andy Lloyd
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THE DARK STAR
Andy Lloyd
ISBN: 9781892264404
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5. The Extended Habitation Zone
10. Anomalies in the Solar System
14. The Origin of the Binary Companion
I would like to dedicate
this book to Fiona, and our two boys, Chris and Robbie, whose light fills each
and every one of our days.
My
very special thanks go to my best friends, and colleagues, Dave and Martin
Cosnette, without whom I would never have embarked on any of this. From an
inspirational chat over a cup of tea, we three set about creating one of the
world's best-loved UFO websites, “Cosmic Conspiracies”. Also thanks go to my
great friends, Simon Faulkner for the Dark Star inspiration, and to Pete Scott,
for the T-shirt.
Lee
Covino deserves special thanks for all the hard effort and time that went into
editing this book, not to mention the persistent urging to find a publisher. I
would also like to express my gratitude to my publisher, Bruce Stephen Holms,
for believing in the merits of this project, and to Peter Gersten, without whom
that opportunity would not have arisen.
The
long road to “The Dark Star” has been made a great deal easier by the help and
encouragement of many people. In particular, I have been inspired by Zecharia
Sitchin, greatly encouraged by Lloyd Pye, believed in by Monika Myers, and
actively published by Joan d'Arc and Al Hiddell, of Paranoia Magazine. Their
support and guidance has been invaluable throughout.
I
am also very grateful to the following people, who have helped along the way
(with apologies to anyone I've forgotten): Rob Astor, Anthony Austin, the late
John Bagby, the late Graham W. Birdsall, Tom and Kerry Blower, Shad Bolling,
the “Clockwork Team.” (Parameshwaran Ravindranathan, Samit Basu and Jaideep
Undurti), Frank Cordell, William Corliss, Al Cornett, Maurice Cotterell, Roger
Cunningham, Richard Day, Kathy Doore, Dr. Richard Fitzpatrick, Robert Frola,
Mattia Galiazzo, Dr. Brett Gladman, Andy Goldie, Dr. Matthew Holman, Holger
Isenberg, James Arthur Jancik, Greg Jenner, David Jinks, Allene Keller, Theo
Kermanidis, Dr. Marc Kuchner, John Lee, Lystra Maisey, Dr. Mark Marley, Ed
Massey, Marshall Masters, Dr. John Matese, Ralph McConahy, Brant McLaughlin,
Dr. Mario Melita, James Monds, Dr. John Murray, James Oberg, David Pearson,
Enrique Pérez Porter, Dr. Alice Quillen, Angel Rapallo, John Rockley, Rick
Savard, Robert Sepehr, Robertino Solarion, Pat Thomas, Barry Warmkessel,
Michael Weinberger, Phil Whitley, Dr. Daniel Whitmire, and Roel Wolfert.
I felt it was
necessary to explain some apparent changes in the world of astronomical
thinking that have affected Andy's book. Since I first formatted and published
The Dark Star in 2005, there has been one major change in the planetary
structure of our solar system.
Pluto, once
regarded as the 9th planet, from its discovery in 1930 until 2006, lost its
status in the late 1970s as a planet. Pluto's relatively low mass and its
status as a major planet was in question ― so, on August 24, 2006 ―
the International Astronomical Union (IAU) excluded Pluto as a planet and added
it as a member of the new category "dwarf planet". Pluto was added to
the list of minor planets and given the number 134340.
Since the
book was written, both Andy and I have discussed the possibility of re-writing
the book and making the necessary corrections. During this time of re-writes, I
have decided to publish the ebook version of the original book keeping it
intact until we have decided whether to correct the original book or write a
new version with many of the latest scientific discoveries that have come about
since 2005.
Since the
advent of the ebook, it is certainly easier to update the material digitally,
so I believe that the re-write will be finished much quicker than in the
"old" days of "hard" copy. Keep checking the Timeless
Voyager website for updates.
http://www.timelessvoyager.com
Thank you,
Bruce Stephen
Holms, Publisher
It is human nature to accept certain apparently self-evident facts
as fundamental truths.
We live comparatively short lives, and the education we receive as
children and fledgling adults, for many of us is the only education available
in a lifetime. Most people in the world have no time for books. Their
televisions are their sources of knowledge, perhaps aided and abetted by
newspapers. So what is taught in schools is what is taken to be truth, often
for the rest of a person's life. Yet our science and our understanding of the
world change over time, often very rapidly. Academics must spend a lot of time
just keeping up with the changes of knowledge in their own fields of expertise.
And there are thousands of fields of expertise...so what real hope is there for
the rest of us to access the latest thinking of science and the arts?
This is where books have a unique role to play. Through 300 pages
or so we can immerse ourselves in modern knowledge and thought, and extend the
rudimentary understanding of our world imparted to us through school. Sometimes
we must 'unlearn' as well, as what was once taught as fact becomes an
historical mistake. Yet people don't readily unlearn. They don't readily throw
off cherished beliefs or theories to accept those offered by a new generation.
This leads to conservatism within academia and society as a whole.
A kind of cultural constraint is evident within the field of
science, as it is in our religious and educational establishments. That is not
to say that scientists do not consider weird and wonderful new theories, as
many of them are open-minded and liberal. However, the institution of science
has itself become rather conservative, and there are certain lines of inquiry
that are as heretical to modern science as witchcraft was to the medieval
church. The British Egyptologist, David Rohl has highlighted the
ultra-conservative consensus that plagues modern scholarship.
1
He
argues that most scholars lack the imagination to really take on the big
unanswered questions, and that the vacuum is filled by non-academic thinkers,
who lack the resources and critical training to balance their work.
We live in an ultra-sceptical world where new ideas are derided as
a matter of course. It seems as though modern science has achieved the
begetting of the central tenets of its knowledge, and is happy only to tinker
with the peripheral details. The major problems that remain are ignored, and
scholars who chose to tackle them are often sidelined, or even publicly
ridiculed.
It is a cultural norm to laugh at suggestions that our origins are
from the skies, not the seas; or that evolution through natural selection might
not actually provide a cast-iron explanation for the development of humanity,
or that 'Others' might live in our own cosmic backyard, while our SETI
scientists peer over the fence into the cosmic fields beyond in search of
extraterrestrial life.
As odd as it may seem, the often stiff upper-lipped Victorians and
Edwardians were far more open-minded about the possibilities of life in our
solar system than we. We live in an age of high technology, space exploration
and global communication. These are great, if not monumental achievements in
the history of our species, but what has been lost recently is the speculative
form of science that the Victorians indulged in when considering such things as
the possibility of life existing on other planets.
The hope that we are not alone took a bit of a battering. If life
was not to be found on Mars or Venus, then the next best possibility was life
around other stars. The distances involved and the physical limitations of
space-travel, mean that this possibility is far less dramatic, or even
relevant. Hence the relative sterility of the scientific debate regarding
extraterrestrial life. This debate has become fringe science, yet this has
not subdued its general popularity. Such a position can be infuriating for
scientists who perennially find themselves pouring cold water over popular
speculation about alien life.
It
is said that a change in human understanding of some fundamental 'truths' takes
not years, but generations. Historically, great leaps forward in science, such
as the identification of the sun as the centre of the solar system by
Copernicus (1543) and Galileo (1633), were not accepted overnight.
2
Quite the contrary, the Western religious institutions that wielded such power
over our ability to reason fought tooth and nail for hundreds of years to
prevent these ideas from catching on. Carl Sagan analyses this intellectual
intransigence in terms of the psychological craving we have to be the centre of
the Universe. Each stage of scientific progress that exposes our ordinariness
in the eyes of the Cosmos knocks our concept of self-importance, and humanity
seems to always reject it, at least to start with.
3
Often in the
past this has been because of religious sensibilities about our rightful place
in the Cosmos.
Sagan
may be right. But on the subject of ET life, it is not the religious
establishments that have stifled debate, but the scientific Establishment
itself. Scientists have been banging nails into the coffin of 'ET life in the
solar system' for decades. But the contents of that coffin are about to be
resurrected. There is another incredible possibility, one that is so remarkable
that it has quickly caught on among interested parties surfing the Internet.
Since 'The Dark Star Theory' first proposed this new possibility, the growth in
visits to the site has been rapid. Why? Because it gives a clear and plausible
argument for the possibility that life could evolve elsewhere in the solar
system. A planet beyond Pluto need not be cold and lifeless! Astronomers know
this. This is not controversial for them. They understand what brown dwarfs
are, and they realize that they provide enough heat and light to provide
habitable environments on planets orbiting these failed stars. They know that
one might well be circling the sun, in the comet clouds that make up the bulk
of the solar system's volume. They recognize the difficulties that detecting
such a body present. But where the Victorians would have indulged in a little
hopeful speculation, the modern mainstream scientists remain stubbornly mute,
afraid to cross that boundary into what has become fringe science.
So instead of reading of these ideas in scientific journals, that
in turn would be reported on in mainstream media outlets, you, dear reader, are
instead reading an 'alternative science' book. What I like to refer to as
'alternative astronomy'. This book will be dismissed and ridiculed by the
intellectual establishment, insofar as it even moves above their horizon of
interest. Even so, I can promise you something; you will discover in these
pages a reasoned and scientific debate, one worthy of open scientific inquiry.
I hope that this book re-kindles the debate about extraterrestrial life in our
solar system, and the environments that such life could inhabit. It throws the
tremendous repercussions of the potential discovery of a brown dwarf in the solar
system into the public domain. In this way, it paves the way for the
astronomical discoveries of the future, and the way they will bring change to
the way we understand ourselves.
When we were in school our physics teachers told us that there are
9 planets in the solar system; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn,
Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. They may even have added that Pluto may not really
be a planet anyway. What they didn't tell us was that that knowledge is not
cast into stone like Moses' Tablets. This is because our scientific knowledge
is necessarily limited at the moment by our ability to detect distant dark
objects. We simply cannot say with certainty that we have discovered all of the
planetary bodies that orbit around the sun.
One day we may understand our solar system more fully, and be able
to draw up our own Tablets of Knowledge. When we do it seems that there will be
ten entries as well, just like there were with Moses. But at the moment we are
missing a crucial commandment...
1
D. Rohl “Legend: The Genesis of Civilization” p50 Arrow 1999
2
P. Moore “Atlas of the Universe” p12, George Philip Ltd. 1999
3
C. Sagan “Pale Blue Dot” Headline 1995
