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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
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 23rd 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 23rd.
However
what may happen on the 23rd 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
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.
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
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.
YouTube
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!
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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.
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.
