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Niburu and Other Nonsense (NASA says world won't end between May 15 - June 1, 2003 -- Feel safe?)
NASA, Ames Research Center ^ | May 5, 2003 | David Morrison, NASA

Posted on 05/11/2003 2:32:09 PM PDT by theFIRMbss

Niburu and Other Nonsense

By: David Morrison

The wild stories about an approaching planet or comet are false!

For months, weird stories have circulated on the Internet predicting the close passage by Earth this month of a Planet X sometimes called "Niburu", or in some versions a giant comet. I have even seen it linked to both Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) and Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs), although why either of these is relevant is not clear to me. This news note is for those who may have heard such rumors and wondered if there was any reality to them. The simple answer is that these are lies. There is no such object. Also, there have been no unusual levels of earthquakes or solar flares or any other of the supposed precursors of terrestrial calamity. [?!] Contrary to what you see on some of these websites, nothing unusual is happening and scientists are not worried by such supposed events. Even more to the point, it is already evident that there is no large comet or looming planet bearing down on the Earth. [For those who might want to see this nonsense, try Google searches on "Niburu" or "Nancy Leider"] If you want the real story on Nibiru or Planet X, check out the following website Bad Astronomy.

I wonder how long this fiction can be sustained in the face of clear evidence that it is not true? The absence of the May apparition of a planet or giant comet looming large in the world's skies should be pretty obvious, and the usual story about a government cover-up would not seem to apply. I suppose, however, that the people who are expounding this nonsense will find some excuses to explain why their predictions did not materialize.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: astronomy; endtimes; incoming; nasa; niburu; science; tinfoil; xplanet; zetatalk
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NASA is talking
(by name!) about Zeta Talk.
(ZT is Nancy.)

Those of us who live
in the midwest might wonder
if tornado swarms,

Atlanta earthquakes,
and hundreds of West Nile deaths
in fact just might be

the strange "precursors"
ZetaTalk has predicted
for now ten years back...

(FYI, I looked
in Taurus for "Niburu"
and didn't see it.)

I'm not cancelling
my planned French Open party,
but, heck, wouldn't it

be something to see
if a freaky brown dwarf
did pass by real close?!
1 posted on 05/11/2003 2:32:09 PM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: theFIRMbss
Get back to me on June second, and I'll give you my opinion...
2 posted on 05/11/2003 2:45:57 PM PDT by babygene (Viable after 87 trimesters)
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To: theFIRMbss
Oh, sure. Like NASA would tell us that the end is nigh.

Tin-foil ready, sir!
4 posted on 05/11/2003 3:57:56 PM PDT by Kowdawg
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To: theFIRMbss
Wow. Zeta Talk is
Made of entire sentences.
Better than your post.

--Boris

5 posted on 05/11/2003 6:12:10 PM PDT by boris (Education is always painful; pain is always educational)
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To: theFIRMbss
ok,I will wait and see,if it happen is going to look the size of the moon,but being in california and with the big quakes created by the proximity,or tsunamy,I will not be able to say "I told you so"


by the way,is only the planet X or few other rocks too?

6 posted on 05/11/2003 6:34:48 PM PDT by green team 1999
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To: theFIRMbss
I hope the world does not end in June. June is one of my favorite months. If the world is going to end, I would much rather it happen in January. And let it end on a Monday morning.
7 posted on 05/11/2003 6:40:16 PM PDT by TBall
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To: PatrickHenry; VadeRetro; Physicist; ThinkPlease; RadioAstronomer; edwin hubble
tin-foil bait/"Nibiru" lunacy placemarker
8 posted on 05/11/2003 6:43:58 PM PDT by longshadow
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To: longshadow
tin-foil bait/"Nibiru" lunacy placemarker

Tin foil??? OMG, this requires 3" thick tin plate! LMAO! I can't believe people fall for this crap.

9 posted on 05/11/2003 6:48:47 PM PDT by RadioAstronomer
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To: longshadow
What these fools don't realize is that the world has already ended! I know this for a fact.
</whacko mode>
10 posted on 05/11/2003 6:54:23 PM PDT by PatrickHenry (Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.)
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To: RadioAstronomer

11 posted on 05/11/2003 7:03:14 PM PDT by PatrickHenry (Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.)
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To: PatrickHenry
LOL! You found an early picture of me! (pssst... no, not the girl!)
12 posted on 05/11/2003 7:06:49 PM PDT by RadioAstronomer
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To: PatrickHenry

13 posted on 05/11/2003 7:14:30 PM PDT by dighton
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To: dighton

14 posted on 05/11/2003 7:16:45 PM PDT by PatrickHenry (Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.)
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To: PatrickHenry
"What these fools don't realize is that the world has already ended! I know this for a fact." Yeah, I think the world ended about 10 years ago. I'm just trying to make the most of this bizzaro realty and trying not to take anything too seriously.
15 posted on 05/11/2003 7:21:21 PM PDT by TBall
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To: RadioAstronomer; PatrickHenry; VadeRetro; general_re; Piltdown_Woman
Tin foil??? OMG, this requires 3" thick tin plate! LMAO! I can't believe people fall for this crap.

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16 posted on 05/11/2003 7:27:52 PM PDT by longshadow
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To: longshadow
Bozotronic™ Alien Life Form Detector

Isn't the Bozotronic Mark II on the market yet?

17 posted on 05/11/2003 7:35:02 PM PDT by RadioAstronomer
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To: PatrickHenry

............

18 posted on 05/11/2003 7:39:35 PM PDT by dighton
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To: dighton
Too far off-topic. Get with the program!
19 posted on 05/11/2003 7:44:31 PM PDT by PatrickHenry (Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.)
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To: RadioAstronomer
Isn't the Bozotronic Mark II on the market yet?

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20 posted on 05/11/2003 7:46:39 PM PDT by longshadow
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