Rumors...

[Pilot7893]

Really? You are all aware of the 2012 doomsday, right? Well, get this. Some idiot got it into his mind the government is hiding the existance of a new planet that will colide with Earth in 2012, killing us all.:fool: Now, there are many things wrong with his theory
1. If the government is hiding it's existance, how did he find out about it? The typical 5th grader responce to that? "My dad works at the CIA!"
2. If a planet was going to collide with Earth that near into the future, we would know it by now. We might even be able to see it, with ameture astronomers seeing an unidentified object moving across the sky, wondering "WTF is that?"
3. If it's existed for billions of years, like all the other planets, it would have had billions of years to collide with us. If it hasn't, it's in a pretty stable orbit and won't hit us any time soon.

Is it true? Is there really no limit to human stupidity? Is boredom with the world leading people to believe all these stupid things? And what's worse? He chose the worst place to start this rumor...Youtube. So now, we've got a group of hippies hiding in their basements, waiting for a death that will never come. It's like the Y2K hysteria all over again.

 

[willy88]

I've heard that this planet is called Nibiru, and it is the size of Jupiter. Apparently it's also the homeworld of some reptilian aliens or something like that. What a load of nonsense, I'd really like to know where those tinfoilers get their ideas from.

 

[Ghostrider]

They ripped off Leiji Matsumoto's "Queen Millennia" once again.

 

[ar81]

Hey guys. Did you see? He discovered the entire government plot to destroy Earth with a giant planet...
I hope he has not discovered yet that he is Elvis... :rofl:

On a serious note, in mayan calendar, which is an agricultural calendar, 2012 is the end of a big cycle.
It is like chinese new year or like our beginning of a new century, just another arbitrary point in the sky.
I have studied supertitions a lot to find what's right and wrong, and I can tell you that no superstition (astrology, mayan astrology, egyptian cycles, numerology, esoteric cosmology, etc), except for western urban legends promoted by media, refer to end of the world on 2012.

 

[astrosammy]

Just stupid this 2012 doomsday things, I'll get 22 years old on January 14th, 2013, I'm not going to die on December 21th, 2012. We would see it allready, also if it's very dark. That thing with the sun photos that should show Nibiru is like the "no stars" thing with the Apollo mission pictures, they see it, but don't know anything about optics. But it would look very cool:

 

[n122vu]

I wonder if realized that his dad is really Jimmy Hoffa?

 

[Pilot7893]

Of course, I believe anyone who believes in doomsday 2012 is an idiot.
(I do not mean to offend anyone here who does)

 

[astrosammy]

Some people even asked NASA about it: http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/ask-an-astrobiologist/?q=Nibiru&l=Ask.


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Just a little question: Wouldn't it be pulled out of it's solar orbit when it leaves the Suns SOI?

 

[Urwumpe]

Just a little question: Wouldn't it be pulled out of it's solar orbit when it
leaves the Suns SOI?

No, you can have a 3150 year orbit (or so) without leaving the solar system, but it would be only 11 AU away now. As close as Saturn. And moving very fast over the sky.

 

[Deke]

WHAT IF it's the Moon?

Hmmm? Anyone ever think about that? What if the Moon is that planet, and it's getting ever so closer, and the Apollo missions were really early ways to try and prevent it from hitting Earth?

Oh yes I just gave the Tin Foil hat people something new to think on.

 

[Jarvitä]

WHAT IF it's the Moon?

Hmmm? Anyone ever think about that? What if the Moon is that planet, and it's getting ever so closer, and the Apollo missions were really early ways to try and prevent it from hitting Earth?

Oh yes I just gave the Tin Foil hat people something new to think on.

There's a problem with your conspiracy theory, they believe Apollo never happened. So you'd have to make a poorly designed website explaining that the US government wants you to believe apollo was faked first to get the CT people to believe it.

This is just like the "jews did 9/11" crowd or any conspiracy theory for that matter...a group of manipulative morons who draw in naive, uneducated people.

 

[Andy44]

That's no moon...it's a space station!

 

[Acepilot]

If Nibiru existed Orbiter would include it. :lol: :rofl:

 

[Deke]

Well it's obvious that this "planet" they are speaking of IS the Moon.

.... Someone get me Bruce Willis... we've got a world to save.

 

[Andy44]

Bu the Moon is moving away from the Earth due to tidal action, not towards it. You guys do know that, right?

 

[Acepilot]

2012

Will the end of Earth come?

Vote

 

[Deke]

Bu the Moon is moving away from the Earth due to tidal action, not towards it. You guys do know that, right?

That's what the government wants you to think...

 

[Acepilot]

I just posted a poll on the subject. :lol:

Link: http://orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?t=3601

 

[Deke]

... Another one of these?

How many threads like this have we gone through in the past two years on both this forum and the original Orbiter forum?

The answer is NO.

We're going to believe a civilization's calander who's been out of exsistance for hundreds of years? Sure they were smart.

But did anyone stop to think maybe... JUST MAYBE they were killed before they could get to dating 2013? Maybe they decided they had gone far enough for a while? Or maybe... just maybe, the reamainder of 2012 and the years to come were lost?

Yeha, no need for it... but whatever.

 

[adamb193]

Come on the Mayans just listened to Rush and messed up the date it is really 2112.