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While I haven't seen this one thrown around recently it is still a perennial favorite. On January 31, 1983 the Washington Post published an article about an upcoming scientific paper. It stated that in the IRAS data there was an unknown object. Among the many possibilities was a new planet in the solar system. Despite the article stating that this object was “not incoming mail” the Nibiru crowd once again jumped on this article as proof of their beliefs. One key reason they give for this is that there was never any follow up.
Now let's look at what the actual article said. Instead of there being one unknown object there were actually ten. Much like in the Washington Post article a number of possibilities were thrown out. Once again however these objects were never seen as threats.
The Nibiru believers were also wrong about there never being any kind of follow up. The first follow up article was published in 1985. This article identified nine of the ten objects as distant, ultra-luminous, young galaxies. This was in fact one of the possibilities in the first paper. The second follow up came in 1987. This identified the final object as an infrared cirrus. So once again the claims of Nibiruphiles have been shown to be out and out false.
originally posted by: argentus
a reply to: chr0naut
Again, measured HUMAN chemistry. What if there were creatures that were of pure energy, and not susceptible to temperature? What if there were creatures based upon quantum ultra-low temp sodium hydroxide? What if very strange things could happen just above zero degrees Kelvin?
originally posted by: chr0naut
Again, measured HUMAN chemistry. What if there were creatures that were of pure energy, and not susceptible to temperature? What if there were creatures based upon quantum ultra-low temp sodium hydroxide? What if very strange things could happen just above zero degrees Kelvin?
originally posted by: Threadbarer
a reply to: 5thHead
The orbits of the planets are stable. Scientists proposed this current planet because of the highly elliptical orbits of a certain class of comets.
The other theory is that they are caused by a rogue star passing by or solar system a long time ago.
originally posted by: joejoebaby
a reply to: joejoebaby
A Black hole is a entrance to travel from solar system to Solar System. The exit is the star of a
certain solar system you wish to travel to.
originally posted by: 5thHead
a reply to: Threadbarer
They. Don't have stable orbits. That's how they know it's there. They see the janky orbits and know something really big must be out there pulling on them.
Also, when the planet crosses it is said to cause great problems. Like the great flood for example. Noah was told to build a boat to avoid impending doom. The flood seems to coincide with the end of the ice age. Those are some pretty big effects.
Also, you say "regular basis" as if it means often, which is not the case. 5,000 to 10,000 years may be close to accurate.
It is also becoming main stream science that the asteroid belt was once a planet. Just like the sumerians said so long ago. A planet turned in to a bunch of rocks doesn't seem to stable to me. It looks more likely something "crossed" it's path and really destabilized the thing.
originally posted by: Threadbarer
a reply to: 5thHead
The fact that you're conflating three different cultures that spanned thousands of years that all had different beliefs.
You tried to explain how the stars in Cylinder Seal VA243 are actually planets by referencing Babylonian astronomy and an Akkadian creation myth. This take is completely ignorant of the fact that Sumer did not have any kind of mathematical or scientific form of astronomy. They recognized the Sun and the Moon. All other celestial objects were stars to them.
And now you're bringing in a Neo-Assyrian stela that was created about 3000 years after Sumer ceased to exist.
originally posted by: 5thHead
originally posted by: chr0naut
Yes, I'm arrogant. I also don't believe in much unhistorical BS.
You don't have to believe in something to acknowledge the possibility of said thing.
That's how science works. You'll never learn anything if you don't open your mind to the possible.
So, do you think the powers that be changed the status of Pluto simply so the missing object would be planet 9 rather than 10 ? As in planet X? as in the cross? Or the planet of crossing? I wouldn't put it past 'em. Poor Pluto. You're still a planet in my book.
originally posted by: chr0naut
originally posted by: Station27
originally posted by: chr0naut
The planet would have formed outside of the habitable zone around its star. It would never have been warm enough, for long enough, for life to have evolved.
What on Earth are you talking about? If it was a planet-sized spaceship, it wouldn't have "formed" anywhere. It would have been "built." And I hardly think it's creators would have forgotten to install a climate control system. Do you?
If it is a spaceship the size of a planet, then it won't have the same mass as a solid planet.
The theorised Planet X is because of perturbations in the orbits of the outer planets and planetoids, and also the occasional comet that falls inwards towards the sun from the Oort cloud, and the fairly rational belief that something massive must have disturbed them enough to de-orbit them.
Planet X would be a high-mass ultracold non-luminous object way out in the Oort cloud.
Perhaps the 'watchers' can live in the hard vacuum of interstellar space, feeding off matter and the very weak radiation that they happen upon. Then they wouldn't need a planet and perhaps they could clump together as a colony of aliens. Of course, their metabolism would have to be very, very slow. So much so hat we would define them as inert matter rather than living. They wouldn't be humanoid, and they'd vaporize if they got out of their freezing environment and approached the Earth. That's at least as likely as suggesting that they live in a spaceship for billions of years, so far from a star that there'd be hardly any energy to run things.
originally posted by: Station27
originally posted by: chr0naut
The Sumerians had no idea of space above the atmosphere.
So, is that why they identified "12 Planets?" Because they were all on the Earth's surface? It sounds like you're in way over your head.
originally posted by: 5thHead
a reply to: chr0naut
If you look at the sky long enough you're going to figure out that some points of light in the sky move differently than others. Some of the planets are visible with the naked eye.
We know these people studied the stars, so how could we be sure they didn't figure out that some are not like the others and put them in a special category?
To say you know is just arrogance.
originally posted by: 5thHead
originally posted by: Threadbarer
a reply to: 5thHead
As I said previously: So you believe the scientists that believe there's a planet in the outer solar system but you don't actually believe any of the science that led them to that hypothesis?
And yes, it is Sitchin's claims. Ask any actual Assyriologist if the Sumerians wrote about aliens that came from the planet Nibiru and they'll laugh in your face.
en.m.wikipedia.org...(Babylonian_astronomy)
Quote from the link:
The Enûma Eliš states:
Nibiru is [Marduk's] star, which he made appear in the heavens... [130-131] The stars of heaven, let him [Nibiru] set their course; let him shepherd all the gods like sheep.[4]"
Well it looks like they did talk about people coming out of the sky (aliens as you degradingly call them)
And yep, they say nibiru is Marduk's star.(Planet)
These aren't sitchin's claims. They are what the sumerians claimed. Sitchin's biggest claim was that the stories the ancient cultures talk about might be more true than we give them credit for.
Just trying to assassinate someone's character is a gross tactic designed to derail the conversation. Truth is the sumerians did talk about people coming out of the sky. ...and nibiru.