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Have you seen headlines that look like the following?
Nibiru BLACKOUT: Fears Planet X could knock out power worldwide
Nibiru PROOF: Footage sparks claims Planet X spotted over UK
Governments 'ALREADY preparing for Planet X apocalypse'
Could the end of the world come TODAY? Mysterious planet Nibiru 'set to wipe out all life with apocalyptic earthquakes'
Nibiru Apocalypse Upon Us Again—Here's How Yellowstone, Nuclear War and Asteroids Could Actually End the World
NASA scientist David Morrison has taken the time to debunk Nibiru... repeatedly (archive):
"I assumed that Nibiru was the sort of Internet rumor that would quickly pass," Morrison wrote in 2008, after his "Ask an Astrobiologist" website had become inundated with predictions that Nibiru was going to cross paths with Earth in 2012. "I now receive at least one question per day, ranging from anguished ('I can't sleep; I am really scared; I don't want to die') to the abusive ('Why are you lying; you are putting my family at risk; if NASA denies it then it must be true.')" he wrote.
Morrison laid out a detailed explanation, which he would repeat in years to come: There is no evidence that Nibiru exists; if it did exist, it would have screwed up the outer planets' orbits long ago; and people have predicted its arrival before and been wrong.
But to no avail:
"I got a note from a 12-year-old girl. She said she and her classmates were scared," he said in a 2011 video. "The simplest thing to say is there is no evidence whatsoever for the existence of Nibiru."
[...] Nibiru theories have by now become so abundant that if you spend long enough on YouTube or PlanetXNews.com you can find an apocalypse scheduled for just about any given day of the week.
And that's why Morrison was on the SETI podcast this week, distracted from his science once again to talk about a world that never stops failing to end. "I got a phone call the other day," Morrison said. "The world was supposed to end Saturday. The man asked, 'Should I ought to work on Saturday, or stay home with my family?' "
He didn't say how he answered. At this point, does it even matter?
Even politicians have taken notice. Just give up?
(Score: 5, Funny) by stretch611 on Monday November 20 2017, @04:27PM (3 children)
I have been studying Nibiru for years now. I have been creating reflector beam technology and I am on the verge of a major breakthrough that can save our planet.
When the planet gets close, the beam slows down the molecules in the air causing them to turn from a gas to a rubber like solid. When the planet comes close to our atmosphere, this slowed downed layer of air will solidify and bounce it off our atmosphere sending it back into space like a rubber band. The best news is that it will work repeatedly with any planet size asteroid to save us again and again.
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Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 3, Funny) by takyon on Monday November 20 2017, @04:59PM
Bad news: Nibiru is also rubber and will bounce us into the Sun.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 20 2017, @09:26PM (1 child)
Have you been watching Fraochy Bay [wikipedia.org] "Space, the Vinyl Frontier?"
(Score: 2) by stretch611 on Tuesday November 21 2017, @12:01PM
Never heard of it... (the series let alone the episode.)
The subject line came straight from Futurama though.
I may try to take a look at it though if I can find it.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P