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Originally posted by Ashyr
actually. its called SLIP STREAM. u can save huge amounts of energy by tailing behind something.
also wasnt it to HIDE so we can't see them coming i mean cause "being so advanced" you still need to HIDE.
haha.
so whats the goss. is this just a BLURBING SPAM POST OF LIES?
i thought it was initially i looked @ it and though no "OFFICIAL" post has at least 10 spelling mistakes outright unless its a USER error copying from a translator
also whats more funnier is this ERROR/LINK is about CHINESE SCIENTISTS.. and yet this page im on here is in SPANISH? ITALIAN? not sure. but its not chinese i can say that muchedit on 8/5/2011 by Ashyr because: (no reason given)
Still looking for debunking, comentaries out of site don`t bring light on this, and the topic needs it, ok?
thanks
]I did not say that the cluster was a giant alien spacecraft, that must be attributed to the media ( Online Missions on its Web site and Chronicle newspaper of Buenos Aires .) who posted bad information, and further without permission of the lecturer .
This is again about comet Elenin. The photo that is usually shown is a fake image and it is actually comet 81P/Wild [www.suite101.com...]. NASA supposedly has limited info and no pictures. Oh, really? Not from the WISE satellite, designed specifically to look at low light objects (like dwarf stars) with high sensitivity infrared? What about the South Pole telescope which has excellent IR detection capabilities? How about Hubble? Nothing! Is this really the dwarf star that would end all life on earth? Why doesnt NASA ever talk anything about it?
Dear readers: I wrote on March 1 that I did not intend to answer any more questions about Comet Elenin. I am changing my mind because I am worried about the effects of the fear campaign that is being waged on the Internet. We all remember the Heaven's Gate cult that became so obsessed with Comet Hale-Bopp in 1997 that they committed mass suicide [en.wikipedia.org...'s_Gate_(religious_group)]. I don't want anything like that to happen again, so I will answer this and the following two questions about Comet Elenin. Perhaps I can also promote some critical thinking about these claims. (1) Yes I know that this photo (which is not faked, just misidentified) is not of Comet Elenin. In fact, most of the images that come up when you Google "Elenin images" are not of Elenin. I don't know how this particular photo of Comet Wild became associated with Elenin, except that Elenin is so faint that perhaps some people wanted to substitute a picture of a brighter comet. (2) The WISE infrared telescope ceased operations at about the time Elenin was discovered. This little comet, then in the asteroid belt, was probably too faint to be picked up by WISE. (3) I don't know much about the NSF telescopes at the South Pole, but in the 5 months since the discovery of Elenin, the South Pole has been in continuous daylight. The South Pole would be one of the worst places to go to study this comet. (4) The Hubble Space Telescope will undoubtedly study Elenin when it is close to Earth, but I doubt that anyone has used it yet. Most astronomers will wait until the comet is closer and brighter. (5) Do I need to remind my readers that a brown dwarf is billions (with a B) of times more massive than a comet? I suspect this brown dwarf rumor started when someone who is not familiar with the sky turned a small telescope on Jupiter with its four moons. (6) There is no reason that NASA (or the media) would be commenting on this small faint comet. About the only people observing it now are amateur astronomers, who are tracking its orbit and its increasing brightness as it approaches the inner solar system. I am answering questions only because of the craziness that is circulating on the Internet, from people who either don't know much about astronomy or are intentionally making up stories to frighten gullible people. Shame on them!
David Morrison
Astrobiology Senior Scientist
April 25, 2011
Originally posted by jibbajabba
Question
This is again about comet Elenin. The photo that is usually shown is a fake image and it is actually comet 81P/Wild.
NASA supposedly has limited info and no pictures. Oh, really? Not from the WISE satellite, designed specifically to look at low light objects (like dwarf stars) with high sensitivity infrared?
What about the South Pole telescope which has excellent IR detection capabilities?
How about Hubble?
Is this really the dwarf star that would end all life on earth?
no comet here!!!
Originally posted by Amberry
reply to post by Thundersmurf
If this comet comes by and passes with no consequences - that will put an end to all the internet stories about it being the Planet-X and Nibiru. Wont that be sad?
Originally posted by loagun
HA! Well since I have nothing else to do today, and its freezing outside I decided to do a little research about Comet Elenin, Leonid Elenin, the supposed IASC Astronomer who works at the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics (Russian Academy of Sciences).
So NASA doesn't really have much to say? Hmm that's interesting... and I will tell you why..
I googled Leonid Elenin, and the first page that comes up is the amateur looking iasc.hsutx.edu... page which gives this little description about him:
"Mr. Elenin is an amateur astronomer from Lubertsy City, Russia, located near Moscow. With a passion for astronomy since childhood, he studies minor objects in the Solar System and variable stars. He has discovered more than 10 variable stars and numerous asteroids. He works at the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics (Russian Academy of Sciences)."
Now presuming that we bpage looks old because it is in fact outdated, we can be assured that Mr. Elenin does 'apparently' work at the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics like the first web page mentions, because by searching his name we also come up with this page: www.linkedin.com...
Which states the same information "Leonid Elenin, Astronomy at Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics RAS, in the Educational Institution" This website is also from 2010.
So not only do these two websites is that Mr Elenin not only works in Moscow, Russia, but he teaches Astrology at the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics.
With more digging we see that NASA's official webpage, as countless other's states "It was discovered with a robotic telescope in New Mexico on 10 December 2010 by Russian amateur astronomer Leonid Elenin', but that is it. No mention of his job, or where that job is located.
Hmmm now isn't that odd? Now how can he be work for an educational institution, a university ne doubt, and teach astrology, and yet also be an "amateur" like NASA reports? Let's not forget that on NASA's press release they leave out any and all mention of his employment.....
Hmmm I don't know something smells fishy to me, let's keep digging...
So as NASA states Mr. Elenin discovered the comet(also known as C/2010 X1 according to NASA and Wikipedia) when he was using a 'robotic telescope in New Mexico'. Now how on Earth would an 'amateur astrologer' as NASA deemed Mr. Elenin ever get access to a robotic telescope in New Mexico? Not to mention that the contradicting stories get even more crossed when one wonders why he isn't actually in Moscow to begin with there he's suppose to be teaching astrology in a university???
Obviously NASA fudged there stories by accident when they deemed "Mr.Elenin" to be an amateur astrologer on one site, and a university professor on another(am I hinting that they made him up?? yes!)
BUT WAIT! lol. it get's EVEN better.
Now as nataylor stated "As I said, NASA doesn't have much to say about Elenin." and on the previous page "Number one, NASA had nothing to do with this discovery. Number two, here are a bunch of pictures:" with the accompanying link www.aerith.net... to some pictures.
So I decided to look up these robotic telescoped in New Mexico and I found all of them. They are as follows....
NF/ Observatory
Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR)
RAPTOR Los Alamos National Laboratory
ROTSE Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment
now why don't we take a closer look...
NF/ Observatory
Western New Mexico University in Silver City
"Funded in part by support from the NASA Arkansas Space Grant Consortium, Henderson State University, and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics."
www.nfo.edu...
Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR)
White Sands Missile Range in Socorro, New Mexico
"is an MIT Lincoln Laboratory program funded by the United States Air Force and NASA"
www.ll.mit.edu...
RAPTOR Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, NM
ISR-1 is engaged in a mixture of civilian- and defense-related programs supported by DOE, DOD, NASA, and other US government agencies.
www.raptor.lanl.gov...
ROTSE Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment
Los Alamos, NM
"The ROTSE research program is supported by NASA, NSF, the Research Corporation, The Planetary Society and the participating institutions."
www.umich.edu...
HA! There ALL supported/funded by NASA! The robotic telescope that "Leonid Elenin"(who doesn't exist on the internet outside of the two profile pages) 'discovered' Comet Elenin/C/2010 X1 using a NASA frick-a-ding-dong telescope that belongs to a NASA sponsored program.
Aslo the link that nataylor left me with the supposed pictures www.aerith.net...