Richard (guest) 05 Jun 2010 03:42
Ok, most of the time things like this scare the c**p out of me, but this time not even I could keep myself from smiling. Here are a brief list of claims that have appeared in different forums1:
- The jovians launched a spacecraft (which would explain why no debris have been observed yet)
- There wasn't really an impact or launch, just Jovians playing with lasers
- These where the most hilarious ones, then came the more "scientific"
- An "unknown" (with subtle hints) object caused asteroids to break loose from the cupier belt
- This same "unknown" object was in fact, which people at ATS (I think) later discovered to be Nibiru
- But, this didn't really compute to the theories of Nibiru already being in the solar system (and visible) so this didn't seem right to many
Well, that was just a few of the ones that was linked to this. Funny how simple minded the doomsayers really are. I mean, nowadays everything is tied to an impedning doomsday. For example, they say that this impact proves that something is wrong in the solar system because Jupiter isn't supposed to get hit this frequentlly.
They do not however, begin to think that perhaps our initial calculations where wrong (which seems likelly due to Jupiters gravitational pull on objects) and these impacts perhaps happen several times a year, just that we aren't able to catch them until fairlly recently. Couldn't it in fact be, just as it is with earthquakes, that we now are able to monitor these events better and thus actually would expect to see more of them? Or is there any truth to the claims that there might be an object residing in the cupier belt (or beyond) that disrupts orbital patterns of asteroids etc? Not Nibiru then, but something other…
I also have an idea about how to unite the Nibiruians on the characteristics. Simply start a forum for them where they can vote on how Nibiru is supposed to look/behave and where it is supposed to be. By doing so, we might finally be able to pinpoint this mysterious planet… Or not=)
But on a more serious note, I found this article: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/25191/ regarding the increased impact probability for Jupiter. I just didn't see how they reached the conclusion that we automatically would be more impact-prone just because Jupiter might be? Wouldn't it be the other way around? If Jupiter "absorbs" objects in a higher rate than previously thought then we would se less close aproaches then we previously thought, right? Finally, isn't the NEA risk assesment based on observations, rather than calculations?