Reflections on Nibiru and Armageddon predictions

I am taking a little bit of time off the TERRIBLE news that is so pervasive

Reflections:

Will the world end on September 23?
Seemorerocks

You Tube channels are full of warnings about Nibiru/’Planet x’ destroying the planet Earth. It has all been around for a long time and I have studiously ignored it all.

However, predictions by a Christian numerologist (ex-astronomer) that the world is going to end on September 23 have come to the fore.

I am quite sure that the 23^rd will come and go and most of us will wake up on 24 September and still be able to enjoy our lattes.

The world will not end on the 23^rd.

However what may happen on the 23^rd is that yet another tropical island may be taken out by a hurricane as Barbuda and Dominica before that.

Millions of people the year round will have their lives destroyed by failed crops, drought, wildfire, hurricane or typhoon.

The world IS ENDING, not through one single event but through a thousand, cruel cuts.

Even RT has joined the party with today’s headline

6th mass extinction event could happen by 2100 – study

It is a great tendency for Doomers, who tend to be materialist and anti-religious to dismiss such prophecies out of turn.

My mind is just as based on solid science as anyone else.

I can say, looking at all the evidence on abrupt climate change and global warming that it points towards Near Term Extinction of humans and other species. I cannot see that it can be any other way.

For a start, discoveries in quantum physics have demonstrated that the world does not act in the simple ways that the human mind projects.

For a start, in addition to linear ‘A causes B, causes C’ causation there is also what is called ‘non- local’ causation which cannot be fathomed so easily by the human mind.

Science talks in terms of probability but there is room for uncertainty.

Perhaps it is that which gives me a certain sympathy for people that think in terms of biblical prophecy. Unlike a lot of others I do not reject this out-of-hand but prefer to see that they are pointing to something that may have a symbolic, rather than a literal importance.

Certainly when I see articles like the following from the Daily Telegraph which gives a lot of space to telling me how I should think I feel a lot more sympathy.

Rather than just reporting the phenomenon with a chuckle,a s might have happened in the past the Telegraph, along with the rest of the media, is taking this very seriously.

Nibiru: How the nonsense Planet X Armageddon and Nasa fake news theories spread globally

This is ilustrated by the fact that when I searched on Google all I could find were the articles dissing the idea and the articles laying out the prediction seem to have been blacked out by the search engine.

The Telegraph not only talks about “rubbish Planet X Armageddon and fake news theories’ but also vociforously denies climate change in general (never mind the truth of abrupt climate change) and In addition to telling us that poor people should just jump off a cliff leaving the 1% to enjoy their investments in a housing bubble ad finitum.

In this regard it was interesting to see what another search engine, Duck Duck Go came up with on exactly the same search

The Express ( tabloid) , a month ago came up with the treatment one may have expected.

NASA confirms Planet X EXISTS but could mythical Nibiru really DESTROYearth next month?

NASA has confirmed the existence of a "Planet X" which happens to share the name of a mythical planet which it is feared will destroy Earth next month.

Prophecies say the upcoming solar eclipse on August 21 is a sign of the impending doom brought by Planet X, also known as Nibiru in September.

The Nibiru Cataclysm myth dates back to 1976, when writer Zecharia Sitchin claimed that two ancient Middle Eastern cultures – the Babylonians and Sumerians – told of the giant Nibiru which orbited the Sun every 3,600 years.

Self-proclaimed extraterrestrial psychic Nancy Lieder then warned Nibiru would crash into Earth or pass it causing huge earthquakes and tidal waves from the gravitation pull.

Various alleged dates for a strike with Earth have come and gone.

So what is the truth?

NASA confirmed the existence of a hypothetical new Planet X deep in  space in the solar system.

Scientists have evidence of the Neptune-sized mystery planet orbiting our sun in a highly elongated orbit far beyond Pluto. 



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NASA says there is no threat from Nibiru or Planet X



They said it could have a mass about 10 times that of Earth and orbit about 20 times further from the sun than Neptune, taking a whopping 10,000 and 20,000 Earth years to make one full orbit around the sun.






So were the Nibiru conspiracy theorists right all along?

Well, NASA did nothing to quell the conspiracy theories by calling it "Planet X" as well as "Planet 9".

However, the space agency says if it does exist it poses no risk to us.

A section about the alleged threat posed by Nibiru on the NASA website says: 

"Our planet has been getting along just fine for more than four billion years, and credible scientists worldwide know of no threat."

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Here is the sort of thing that is out there citing scientists like physicist Michio Kaku to boost their case.

This is supposed to be 'fake news' but there he is ! - unless this is a Michio Kaku lookalike!

I’m never going to take on this way of seeing the world but in spite of the daft nature of much of it I have a lot more sympathy than I do towards the toxic mainstream media.

People I sometimes look to for commentary say things I disagree with all the time. If I rejected them for saying things I disagree with on certain issues I would have almost no one to listen to when on some issues like geopolitics they make pefect sense.

Take Christopher Greene...

What the MSM Isn't Telling You About Planet X

Or Steven Ba-Noon and his anti Christ and fallen agels in Antarctica.

I am most allergic to the idea that if such-and-such a source says something that is patently wrong about one thing it means they are unreliable in everything they say.

If I took this idea to its (il)logial conclusion I’d be very lonely!

We are all blessed with a mind to think with and some of us with discriminative intelligence even!

I fully expect to wake up on Monday mornng but I am not going to reject out-of-hand others’ attempts to make sense of the Amageddon that is facing us all. 

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POSTSCRIPT: I found this interesting both in terms of the light this sheds on this controversy as well as in the quality of journalism back in1983. They asked questions back then, reported and didn’t tell people what they should think.

Possibly as Large as Jupiter

The distance from earth of a mysterious object in space was reported incorrectly in some editions yesterday. The correct figure is 50 billion miles.

By Thomas O'Toole December 30, 1983

A heavenly body possibly as large as the giant planet Jupiter and possibly so close to Earth that it would be part of this solar system has been found in the direction of the constellation Orion by an orbiting telescope aboard the U.S. infrared astronomical satellite.

So mysterious is the object that astronomers do not know if it is a planet, a giant comet, a nearby "protostar" that never got hot enough to become a star, a distant galaxy so young that it is still in the process of forming its first stars or a galaxy so shrouded in dust that none of the light cast by its stars ever gets through.

"All I can tell you is that we don't know what it is," Dr. Gerry Neugebauer, IRAS chief scientist for California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and director of the Palomar Observatory for the California Institute of Technology, said in an interview.

The most fascinating explanation of this mystery body, which is so cold it casts no light and has never been seen by optical telescopes on Earth or in space, is that it is a giant gaseous planet as large as Jupiter and as close to Earth as 50 trillion miles. While that may seem like a great distance in earthbound terms, it is a stone's throw in cosmological terms, so close in fact that it would be the nearest heavenly body to Earth beyond the outermost planet Pluto.

"If it is really that close, it would be a part of our solar system," said Dr. James Houck of Cornell University's Center for Radio Physics and Space Research and a member of the IRAS science team. "If it is that close, I don't know how the world's planetary scientists would even begin to classify it."

The mystery body was seen twice by the infrared satellite as it scanned the northern sky from last January to November, when the satellite ran out of the supercold helium that allowed its telescope to see the coldest bodies in the heavens. The second observation took place six months after the first and suggested the mystery body had not moved from its spot in the sky near the western edge of the constellation Orion in that time.

"This suggests it's not a comet because a comet would not be as large as the one we've observed and a comet would probably have moved," Houck said. "A planet may have moved if it were as close as 50 trillion miles but it could still be a more distant planet and not have moved in six months time."

Whatever it is, Houck said, the mystery body is so cold its temperature is no more than 40 degrees above "absolute" zero, which is 456 degrees Fahrenheit below zero. The telescope aboard IRAS is cooled so low and is so sensitive it can "see" objects in the heavens that are only 20 degrees above absolute zero.

When IRAS scientists first saw the mystery body and calculated that it could be as close as 50 trillion miles, there was some speculation that it might be moving toward Earth.

"It's not incoming mail," Cal Tech's Neugebauer said. "I want to douse that idea with as much cold water as I can."

Then, what is it? What if it is as large as Jupiter and so close to the sun it would be part of the solar system? Conceivably, it could be the 10th planet astronomers have searched for in vain. It also might be a Jupiter-like star that started out to become a star eons ago but never got hot enough like the sun to become a star.

While they cannot disprove that notion, Neugebauer and Houck are so bedeviled by it that they do not want to accept it. Neugebauer and Houck "hope" the mystery body is a distant galaxy either so young that its stars have not begun to shine or so surrounded by dust that its starlight cannot penetrate the shroud.

"I believe it's one of these dark, young galaxies that we have never been able to observe before," Neugebauer said.

"If it is, then it is a major step forward in our understanding of the size of the universe, how the universe formed and how it continues to form as time goes on."

The next step in pinpointing what the mystery body is, Neuegebauer said, is to search for it with the world's largest optical telescopes. Already, the 100-inch diameter telescope at Cerro del Tololo in Chile has begun its search and the 200-inch telescope at Palomar Mountain in California has earmarked several nights next year to look for it. If the body is close enough and emits even a hint of light, the Palomar telescope should find it since the infrared satellite has pinpointed its position.