Space and stuff

[Ashtonian]

haha the planet x theories all sound brilliant on the surface, really creepy as well.

Then when you read deeper, you see how nonsensual they are.

 

[NSNO_Phil_1878]

Planet x is pseudoscience.

 

[degsy]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35365323
Ninth planet in the solar system.

Bit Melancholia....

yippee it's back to nine, but really 10 to all us of the more mature out look.

anyway big planet alignment this week and again in Aug.

*gets telescope ready.

 

[TheFinnFan]

That new planet thingy...amazing...

 

[peteblue]

Planet x is pseudoscience.

Can't be mate, here's a picture.......must be real......surely....

 

[TheFinnFan]

What if that planet is full of Kopites???

 

[ItsOKImAPilot]

What if that planet is full of Kopites???

The artist impression depicts a blue planet. I think we're in good company.

 

[summerisle]

Be afraid, be very afraid

 

[peteblue]

What if that planet is full of Kopites???

Its far enough away.......

 

[whiteshadow]

Planet X and Nibiru are slightly different theories although both about an undiscovered plant in the solar system.

Planet X:

Astonomers have known for years that all the outer planets orbits are disrupted and don't follow the exact path they should do. The only mathematical explanaition for their disturbed orbits would be a large planet deep in the outer solar system that is influencing them. They originally thought that planet was Pluto when they discovered it at first but it's way to small to influence them, that's why there's always been the theory of a planet x, which their is evidence of.

Nibiru:

The Sumarians claimed their gods (the annunaki) lived among them and came from a large planet in our solar system called Nibiru. The orbit of the planet is supposed to bring it in to the inner solar system every 3,600 years. Part of the theory is that we are actually living in a binary solar system and that Nibiru is orbiting around a brown dwarf star, which emits hardly any light and is much smaller than our sun. The orbit of the dwarf star brings Nibiru and the other orbiting bodies of that smaller system in to the inner solar system.

One of the interesting things about the Sumarians is that they knew the distance between each of the planets in our solar system and the colour of each, which should have been impossible for them to know. It was only when probes were used in the 70's that it confirmed the Sumarian beliefs. They also knew the Earth was round and orbited the Sun, and they knew of every planet in our solar system, including Pluto, which wasn't even discovered by modern science until 1930.

Another interesting fact is that in the observable universe it's estimated between 50-80% of all star systems are binary or higher, containing 2 or more stars in the system.

 

[Dylan]

Planet x is pseudoscience.

I don't think that ANYTHING that comes out of CALTECH could even remotely be called pseudo-science.

 

[peteblue]

I don't think that ANYTHING that comes out of CALTECH could even remotely be called pseudo-science.

Be honest, you went there didn't you......

 

[Hellerad]

Planet X and Nibiru are slightly different theories although both about an undiscovered plant in the solar system.

Planet X:

Astonomers have known for years that all the outer planets orbits are disrupted and don't follow the exact path they should do. The only mathematical explanaition for their disturbed orbits would be a large planet deep in the outer solar system that is influencing them. They originally thought that planet was Pluto when they discovered it at first but it's way to small to influence them, that's why there's always been the theory of a planet x, which their is evidence of.

Nibiru:

The Sumarians claimed their gods (the annunaki) lived among them and came from a large planet in our solar system called Nibiru. The orbit of the planet is supposed to bring it in to the inner solar system every 3,600 years. Part of the theory is that we are actually living in a binary solar system and that Nibiru is orbiting around a brown dwarf star, which emits hardly any light and is much smaller than our sun. The orbit of the dwarf star brings Nibiru and the other orbiting bodies of that smaller system in to the inner solar system.

One of the interesting things about the Sumarians is that they knew the distance between each of the planets in our solar system and the colour of each, which should have been impossible for them to know. It was only when probes were used in the 70's that it confirmed the Sumarian beliefs. They also knew the Earth was round and orbited the Sun, and they knew of every planet in our solar system, including Pluto, which wasn't even discovered by modern science until 1930.

Another interesting fact is that in the observable universe it's estimated between 50-80% of all star systems are binary or higher, containing 2 or more stars in the system.

I would recommend looking in to what the Sumerian and Babylonian astronomers actually knew and theorized. Much different.

 

[Dylan]

Be honest, you went there didn't you......

No, however, after I got out of the Navy I worked for a big lighting controls company. Caltech completely renovated the Henry V Robinson Laboratory of Astrophysics and I commissioned the lighting system throughout the building.

That, and the fact that Caltech made bits for the US Navy's submarines, is the only affiliation I ever had with them.

 

[Dylan]

Be honest, you went there didn't you......

Also, I don't have anywhere near the mental aptitude to go there.

I do know that new students who go there have to take a 3 day workshop that covered how to interact with females. Remember, the majority of people who go to Caltech are quite clever, but lack the social skills required to interact with the opposite sex.