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2012: No Planet X

universetoday.com — Apparently, Planet X (a.k.a. Nibiru) was spotted by astronomers in the early 1980's in the outermost reaches of the Solar System. So what does this mean to us? Millions, even billions of people will die, global warming will increase; earthquakes, draught, famine, wars, social collapse, even killer solar flares will be caused by Nibiru blasting...

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  • zombird, on 05/26/2008, -11/+4Draught or drought?
  • prompel, on 05/26/2008, -3/+42Mere facts will not convince a true believer!
  • Sammiboi, on 05/26/2008, -3/+45Come to Australia, we can shelter ourselves in the kangaroo's pouches!
    • MacSuxWindozSux, on 05/26/2008, -0/+7I heard its wet and sticky in there.
    • DestroyFascism, on 05/26/2008, -0/+2Drink XXXX first, then you won't notice..
  • crazyjake, on 05/26/2008, -1/+34some of these people are crazy, there are a ridiculous number of videos on youtube about "chemtrails" blocking out "planet x". i can't wait for 2012 so these people will just shut up!
    • psevium, on 05/26/2008, -0/+10And if they're right, at least we'll also not be able to hear them gloat!
    • bitcloud, on 05/26/2008, -1/+9I thought they were going to shut up after the year 2000?

      (and I'm sure there was no shortage of people in the past hoping that all the raving characters running around with "the end is nigh" signs since the dawn of time would just shut up...)
      • crazyjake, on 05/26/2008, -0/+3well the whole 2000 thing was completely computer based, there were no "ancient writings" or other non-facts to back up the end of the world predictions like there are now!! you see... there is always a way to reason through what has already happened with "facts", but it is so much easier to ignore even more of these "facts" when it comes to what has yet to happen.
      • oneoverzero, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1They wont shut up when the world doesn't end in 2012, because if /that's/ the case, then the world is obviously going to end in 2025.
        • Tiak, on 05/27/2008, -0/+1Actually, I believe the next prediction will be 2020, when the TV show 2020 show being played at 8:20 PM will create a temporal paradox that will devour the universe.
    • flashback99, on 05/26/2008, -0/+12I think this is appropriate here: http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa74/harrowlawl ...
    • expo1001, on 05/26/2008, -0/+4They will never shut up.
    • stuffradio, on 05/26/2008, -0/+32012 has become the next Y2K :)

      /Digg down, it was said 2 comments below
  • punkkid345, on 05/26/2008, -8/+1We'll just blow it up anyway.
  • reaper, on 05/26/2008, -2/+19oh *****. another Y2K!
    • bitcloud, on 05/26/2008, -1/+5I don't know why people cite Y2K... it was actually addressed prior to the event, so short of a bunch of people being stranded with no access to their money, and a bunch of hospitals having potentially deadly screwups, not much happened... In other words it was resolved prior to becoming a ***** fight.
      • JYoungest1, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1That is the reason most people compare it to y2k. Everyone was going crazy in the months and years before the actual event. Isn't that whats happening now.

        Duh...
        • Tiak, on 05/27/2008, -0/+1There were news stories about eccentrics buying a lot of extra water... That wasn't "everyone going crazy"...
    • stuffradio, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1Stupid me, I didn't read the next one or two comments before I said the same thing as you. :(
    • Tiak, on 05/27/2008, -0/+1Oh *****! Another Hail Bop!
  • scooper86, on 05/26/2008, -6/+3seriously?!
  • foxhound009, on 05/26/2008, -3/+7oow great fireworks.

    so.. by the time I finish my school and start actually living I'll just be... dead? .. awesome!
    • Fortyseven, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1That's pretty much how it works anyway, Nibiru or not.
  • Sinudeity, on 05/26/2008, -2/+21The lizard people are coming!!!
    • MacParrot, on 05/26/2008, -1/+14Lizard People??? I laugh at such foolishness. Everyone knows that Planet X has cockroach people and they will offer a hand of friendship and capture Godzilla to go fight Monster X (actually King Ghidorah) on their planet, but (GASP!) will enslave Godzilla and Rodan as part of a nefarious plot to take over the Earth. Fortunately Nick Adams and lots of Japanese actors who's names are unpronounceable to most Americans will discover this fiendish scheme and save us all.
      Psshhhht...lizard people.
    • DiggLive, on 05/26/2008, -0/+4David Archuleta is already here.
    • Lynxpro, on 05/26/2008, -1/+3That's not even the right name of the planet. The real name of the planet is Mondas, and we have nothing to fear from any reptilians because they don't live there. However, the Mondas humanoids decided to replace their biological body parts with cybernetic technology, and they've become a cold and calculating race of cyborgs known as the Cybermen. One man of mystery who travels in a blue box, is destined to protect the Earth from their countless schemes to invade us. That man's name is said to be written into the stars, but he is known as The Doctor.
  • neofreakiii, on 05/26/2008, -1/+4Oh no. Everyone start your doomsday clocks!
  • slapded, on 05/26/2008, -2/+26it was "supposed" to come in 2003.
    • expo1001, on 05/26/2008, -0/+17I for one, hate tardy celestial bodies.
    • D1ckFace, on 08/20/2008, -0/+1the 2003 preditction came from www.zetatalk.com - an outlet for aliens from the Zeta Reticulan system. The same aliens that are supposed to abduct people and perform cattle mutilations etc. They said 2003 was a white lie to fool the elite into not enforcing martial law and that now even more people get to know about planet-x. To date they won't give another prediction because it will give the elite a heads up of when planet-x comes and give them a chance to expoit humanity. However, the elite have exploited humanity anyway so we have nothing to lose on that front.
  • Shadowgamers, on 05/26/2008, -0/+9Where's Duck Dogers when you need him.
    • FFandMMfan, on 05/26/2008, -0/+7...IN THE TWENTY-FOURTH-AND-A-HALF-CENTURYYYYY!!
  • eklypze, on 05/26/2008, -12/+4How many times have scientists claimed the world's end is coming but never came?
    • buckrogers1965, on 05/26/2008, -1/+26Scientists? Never. Not once.
    • bitcloud, on 05/26/2008, -1/+2sometimes they've mentioned potential threats so we can address them... which we have, averting the threat...

      This doesn't seem like a credible threat, but I wouldn't get complacent (we are, after all, constantly warding off our imminent demise with our anti-bodies, and other defensive mechanisms)
    • dawpa2000, on 05/26/2008, -0/+4eklypze, are you talking about non-scientists?
  • ctf2006, on 05/26/2008, -3/+1Thats getting Dugg for the simple reason I remember arguing about this in a Field in Tenby ALL night with one of my best mates who thought were were all gonna die in 2012.........Anyway, Global warming will probably kill us before it even reached us anyway.
  • phosdex, on 05/26/2008, -2/+2Hooray! My delivery of shaving cream atoms will finally arrive!
    The stuff here on Earth isn't anywhere near as good as the stuff back home.
  • rentmitchum, on 05/26/2008, -1/+15"In 1843, John Couch Adams (a British mathematician and astronomer) studied the orbital perturbations of Uranus and deduced that through gravitational interactions..."

    I had to laugh at this for two reasons. "perturbations of Uranus" and the guy's middle name was Couch.
  • Themadnessedits, on 05/26/2008, -7/+1Does this kind of make the mayans right?
  • xjebbx, on 05/26/2008, -0/+26What do the scientologists say???
    • DestroyFascism, on 05/26/2008, -0/+6Nibiru is your god leader alien shadow man. All hail the gourd. (Or was it the shoe?)
    • wrongonce, on 05/26/2008, -0/+10Scientologists say:
      "Don't taze me bro"
      "They're magically delicious."
      "You never studied the history of psychiatry."
      "Who let the dogs out?"
      "Up your nose, with a rubber hose."
      (hint, at least 2 of the above are correct)
      • yingjai, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1What is... "who let the dogs out" and "up your nose with a rubber hose?"
    • expo1001, on 05/26/2008, -0/+7It's Xenu... He's coming back with another load of aliens to dump in earth's volcanoes. Everyone knows that while Xenu's space planes look like DC-8s, their gravometric signatures matche that of a brown dwarf star! Jesus, don't you people know anything?
  • biggiantmat, on 05/26/2008, -1/+4I think it's funny that every few years or so, for as long as I can remember, one crazy group of people or another have been predicting doomsday. If it's not a meteorite hurtling to earth every couple of years, it's a prediction made by some long dead superstition.
    Something tells me we're going to be ok in 2012 :)
    • Abomonog, on 05/26/2008, -0/+5We're not ok now. What makes you think conditions will improve by 2012?
      • biggiantmat, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1Ok fine, Something tells me the world isn't going to explode in 2012. better? :)
    • Lynxpro, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1Abomonog, don't you know the mantra on Digg? In 2012, we'll be nearing the end of President Obama's first term, and he'll usher in peace and prosperity across the land and we'll all commute to our jobs by riding magical which will cut our carbon emissions greatly. But the evil Republicans will have none of this and so they've communicated with the Annunaki (also known as the Cybermen) from Nibiru (Mondas) to invade our planet and install a cybernetic John McCain and Mitt Romney (who is really a robot) as the Cyber Controller(s) (aka "leader") of the planet. It will happen in 2012 because Mondas will be closer to the Earth and gives them some extra time to build up their space armada.
      • Abomonog, on 05/27/2008, -0/+2Ahh yes. The pipe dream. I forgot. My bad.
    • jamesinderby, on 05/28/2008, -0/+0totally agree. there's a post that discusses what global warmists and terrorists have in common. A lot:
      http://www.ukrep.com/views/
  • ssj2119, on 05/26/2008, -0/+9December 21st 2012 for who?
  • CrudeDarkness, on 05/26/2008, -2/+3I nearly submitted a video of the conspiracy of planet x last month. Now I'm glad that I didn't.

    when 2012 passes, I will laugh really hard at the conspiracy theorists.
  • dmark77, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1Should we destroy them?
  • headzoo, on 05/26/2008, -2/+4I first heard about "Planet X" in Zecharia Sitchin's The 12th Planet, which I read over a decade ago. The details are fuzzy, but Zecharia theorized that the Great Flood talked about in the Bible, the Koran, Greek mythology, etc, was a result of this 12th planet passing by the Earth, which it does every 3,600 years.

    He also theorized that there's life on Planet X, and they started all life here on earth, but that's a whole different story.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_12th_Planet
    • mithrasinvictus, on 05/26/2008, -1/+5That has to be the worst book i have ever read! Sitchin picks facts and then spins an unbelievable theory connecting them, on the next page he does the same thing but uses his previous pseudo logic to "prove" new nonsense. More obvious explanations are disregarded because they don't fit with his theory. This book is as reasonable as a creationism textbook.
      • Lynxpro, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1...has it been independently confirmed that Sitchin can actually read and translate properly the old languages he claims?

        Me thinks he's just watched a lot of Doctor Who and adapted some of the program's mythos.
  • comradeTJH, on 05/26/2008, -9/+4It's kinda funny scientists tell that the universe is mostly discovered. The big bang called a fact and date it to quite exact number of billion years, etc when in fact not even our own solar system is really discovered...
    • tk0680, on 05/26/2008, -1/+5No, nobody calls it fact, because nobody was around to see it with their own eyes (much like everything mentioned on the bible and any other religious text, y'know). It's just the most likely option.
  • macweirdo42, on 05/26/2008, -2/+9http://xkcd.com/258/
  • alefox, on 05/26/2008, -0/+4ok, so from what headzoo was saying it orbits near earth every 3600 years, so lets see 2008-3600=1592 or 1,592 BC wikipedia doesn't have an article about that year, however it does say, "
    ca. 1595 BC — Mursili I, king of the Hittites, sacks Babylon. This brings and end to the rule of the descendants of Hammurabi in that kingdom.
    1597 BC — Aaron born to Amram and his wife Jochebed (traditional date)"
    so nothing happened that year (at least according to wikipedia) therefore nothing was ever documented about it and the human race survived, now if only I had a delorean...
    • wrongonce, on 05/26/2008, -0/+4*contemplates "sacking Babylon" as a bachelor party concept...
    • deadbeatsaint, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1Nononono... don't you see... there are NO RECORDS because EVERYTHING was wiped out, how can you record complete and total annihilation? YOU CANT! So OF COURSE we wouldnt have any records from that time period. Which PROVES this theory!
      • Abomonog, on 05/26/2008, -0/+2If everything was wiped out there would be a geological record.
        Anyway "near Earth" means somewhere in the vicinity of 20 million miles. Said planet could have passed by without so much of a tremor happening on earth. Could happen again with the same result.
  • motters, on 05/26/2008, -1/+1What about planets Y and Z ?
  • AKILAAUREA, on 05/26/2008, -0/+2we must to still seek another hole to hide our heads
  • 4bit, on 05/26/2008, -0/+3Right up front:

    I am not a believer in "Planet X".

    Ok, that out of the way. The first mystery object was, by the author's own admission, just that. We have no idea if it was a brown dwarf. So picking that out of the list of candidates for determining the mass of the objects is about as valid as throwing darts. Therefore, you can't use your makebelieve mass to prove it's not the same object as 1992's observation. But then, you also can't prove it's getting closer either.
    • Lynxpro, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1...but... is Nibiru's brown dwarf star the so-called "Nemesis" companion star of our's (Sol)? The alleged star which showers our star system with meteors every few million years? There's more than one scientist who asserts this to be the case, but I don't know if he's said both of these theorized stars are one in the same.
      • 4bit, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1No disrespect, but you're obviously using some version of the word 'scientist' I"m not familiar with.

        Scientist take the evidence at hand, and extrapolate theories, then prove them.

        So, when we have evidence of these cyclical meteor showers, we can start to form theories then test them. Right now, looking for what pulls on the far planet(s, I still count Pluto damn it), is about the only evidence we have for something else out there. It'll be interesting to find out what that something is, but right now, 10th (9th? grumble) planet seems like a simple answer. But we just don't know.
        • Lynxpro, on 05/27/2008, -0/+1No disrespect taken, but you don't consider Professor Richard A. Muller of UCB to be a proper scientist?

          As I wrote before, I did not think his "Nemesis" star was the same as Sitchin's "Nibiru" (aka "Mondas"). Nibiru supposedly comes into contact with us every 3600 years while the Nemesis caused meteor showers allegedly happen every 36 million years.

        • 4bit, on 05/27/2008, -0/+1Fair enough. Looked over his work, and he seems to be basing his theories on evidence, and trying to work within those guide lines. He also scores relatively low on the crackpot index. So, yeah, I'd have to say this guy qualifies.

          Personally, I'm still skeptical of the theory. He seemed to both aknowledge and ignore the fact that no one, in all their looking, has seen this star circling.
  • imcharming, on 05/26/2008, -0/+8We'll all look back an laugh at this on December 22nd, 2012. And then shut up because we didn't go Christmas shopping yet, thinking the world would end.
    • taintedzodiac, on 05/26/2008, -1/+3Sorry, grandma! I didn't get you a present because the world ended four days ago.
  • beabis, on 05/26/2008, -1/+17If the Mayans were so smart why are they extinct?
    • metara, on 05/26/2008, -0/+6They are just hiding!
    • Metasquares, on 05/26/2008, -0/+7I think the whole 2012 thing is ridiculous, but some Mayans do still exist. For the most part, they diffused into the surrounding culture, but some still practice their old beliefs (minus the blood sacrifice, I would imagine).
    • Lynxpro, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1Maybe they just saw the futility of it all and gave up.
  • RockSlice, on 05/26/2008, -0/+6I predict that 30,760 years from now, people will be concerned for a similar reason as the Mayan calendar ending in 2012. They will know that some people stored dates in a format that would go negative after 32,767, meaning that they obviously knew that dates after that wouldn't be needed.
    How on earth did we, a primitive (by the 31st millenium's standards) people, know that the world was going to end, and why on earth didn't we leave more information/warnings?!?
  • dmkirt, on 05/26/2008, -1/+7... is it... could it be... the Death Star?!?!
  • Tybee, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1Soooo...on that date the planet is going to just suddenly start speeding towards the solar system core and cause havoc? Even if it were beginning its journey now it'd take more than a couple of decades to get anywhere near us.
  • Rizmaster, on 05/26/2008, -0/+5Marked as inaccurate.

    The tenth planet is Mondas, home of the Cybermen. Everyone knows that.
    • Lynxpro, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1They were humanish before transforming themselves into the cold and calculating Cybermen.

      Who's to say that Sitchin isn't a big Doctor Who fan and just renamed Mondas as Nibiru?

      It is funny though, because according to Sitchin, the Annunaki from Nibiru came to the Earth to mine gold in order to repair their atmosphere. They also supposedly "created" modern humans through tinkering with our evolutionary process to have intelligent subservient mining labor. And thus the Annunaki "created" us which gives them a rational argument that explains why it is ethical to harvest us for Cybermen assimilation. Of course, the irony is that gold is the primary weakness of the Cybermen...

    • Sham1969, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1Genius -
  • Rabbittt, on 05/26/2008, -0/+2Gotta admit, this would be great theatre...to witness the ultimate coup de grace..mind blowing..
  • NaitYevrah, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1Doesn't matter.... Niburu is merely a religiously affiliated term for those religious fanatics that have been thinking that their generation is the last generation since the beginning of the human history.
  • drguerra, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1drama drama drama. These doomsayers are getting oooooooooold.

    Like come on, they included wars. How the ***** is a new planet in the solar system gonna cause wars? Buried for being crap.
  • Stonekeeper, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1Planet X is where all us Gen X-ers come from. Hopefully we can go back this iteration!
  • Spoomeister, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1Only because Marvin Martian got to it first.
  • rzrgenesys187, on 05/26/2008, -0/+2Don't buy Christmas Presents in 2012
    • Grolsch, on 05/27/2008, -0/+0Why? You gonna spend your money on something else after Christmas?
  • copypastry, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1BLACK HOLES, BLEEP BLORP
  • beautifulleper, on 05/26/2008, -1/+1The thing about planet x. Is we would never be told it is true. The amount of destruction is so great that it would create panic and possibly bring out some of the worst characteristics in human behavior. I am not a believer in planet x. I just don't think we would get to know about it till we were seeing it in the sky and then I think governments would try to say it is something else than what it is. Simply because the implications would be so destructive and with very little we could do about it, then governments would want to keep order. That is why I like the planet x idea even if it is fiction cause it is great material for science fiction.
  • WTFppl, on 05/26/2008, -1/+32012, December 21st will be nothing more than a change of a solar cycle. Weather will be slightly different for a period of 5200 years after that. During the change, fluctuations in the planets magnetic field will cause some pretty scary volcanic, tectonic and meteorological activity. Some of us will die from natural disasters, but it is simply the progression of planetary and system gravitational changes that will be caused by the suns slowing in rotation. "It is nothing to fear, it has happened before and we are still here!"
  • RoboCafaz, on 05/26/2008, -0/+2Lets just shoot a giant ball of garbage at it.
  • DewCrew88, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1sage
  • umbriago, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1Let me go check my Time Cube, it will tell me when.
  • brainal, on 05/26/2008, -0/+3You call this a planet? This can't be a planet since Pluto isn't a planet. And what about the large hardon collider? Aren't we supposed to die from that?
    • Madgerz, on 05/27/2008, -0/+0Don't forget about the meteor that is coming for us that was predicted. Also I read somewhere that a dust cloud is coming to clean us up.... One of these has to be true lol
  • Notasheeple, on 05/26/2008, -2/+1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Blue_Beam
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ8RkejXSb4

    I'm not saying...........I'm just saying.
    • withoutamartyr, on 05/26/2008, -0/+2That entry's only external link is to a geocities page.

      I'm not saying... I'm just saying.
      • Valhawk, on 05/26/2008, -1/+0Thats why I just Proposed it to be Deleted.
  • beautifulleper, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1I am not sure why this got digged down. It is perfectly logical. I guess diggers arn't the most logical people.
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