Does Nibiru really exist

[Zep 0]

Yesterday I had an hour or so to kill so I went web surfing,
well as you all know when surfing the web you generally end up light years
away from the subject you first started looking at,

I ended up being fasinated by Nibiru and all the usual crowd of doom sayers
and anti goverment oiks.

If it really exists does it pose a threat to our planet as I'm thinking of
making long term plans for my retirement.

Gone fishing

[AggieDave 6]

So you're asking if I believe in a prediction from someone who says they are telepathically linked to aliens who warned her of a large planetary object that will collide with earth?

No.

I do believe in a continued global financial meltdown that will downwards towards a social collapse. That prediction has been made with out alien intervention.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[muff528 3]

I wouldn't worry too much about it. It appears that the Zeta Reticulans have already blown the date once before. (probably didn't take speedy neutrinos into consideration in their calculations ...either that or they forgot all about leap years.) Another explanation is that when they abducted Barney and Betty they got really pissed when they found out they weren't the "famous ones" and are now getting some kind of charge out of occasionally scaring the daylights out of earth-folk just for the hell of it.

[Zep 0]

"So you're asking if I believe in a prediction from someone who says they are telepathically linked to aliens
who warned her of a large planetary object that will collide with earth?"

But, but they make such convincing points, all those maps and orbital charts.
Also I have a design for a really pretty lead lined hat that would be a shame to go to waste.

Gone fishing

[JohnRich 4]

One of the books I've read recently was "Nightfall" by Isaac Asimov, the famous science fiction author. It was interesting because it posed a similar scenario, whereby a religious faction on this fictional planet predicted the end of their world on a certain date, based upon ancient scriptures, and everyone else on the planet considered those people to be nuts. But then the planet's leading astronomers discovered some inconsistencies in the planetary orbits, that could only be explained by the presence of another large, but unseen planet, approaching their own. And it came to be that the astronomers and other scientists came to be in exact agreement with the whacko religous cult. And this threw society into huge tumult. Were the scientists now nuts too? Should the scientists be disregarded as having been influenced by the religious nuts? Should the atheists lynch both the scientists and the religious nuts? Or should the public believe them both, and join the religious nuts in the hope of spiritual salvation before the end comes?

Another similar book is "The Big Eye", about a pending planetary collision, and the changes it wreaks upon society. If the world is going to come to an end, there is no longer any point in investing, no point in planning for the future, no point in fighting over resources, and no point in war. In that book, it turns out, the scientists lied! The planet WAS going to come into a near collision with earth, but would actually skim by and miss. However, the world's leading scientists got together and decided to lie to the public about it, in order to bring the world to peace, through the belief that they were doomed.

[riddler 0]

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It appears that the Zeta Reticulans have already blown the date once before. (probably didn't take speedy neutrinos into consideration in their calculations ...either that or they forgot all about leap years.)

Yeah, you would think that if these super-advanced aliens can travel to distant planets (Earth), and implant things in people's heads to facilitate telepathy, that they would be able to precisely determine the timeframe of a large celestial object passing near earth (we're talking Kepler equations, those are pretty simple).

On the other hand, if their I.T. was written by a company in any way similar to Microsoft, I would expect exactly these types of errors. At least in version 1.0.

Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD

[MikeJD 0]

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However, the world's leading scientists got together and decided to lie to the public about it, in order to bring the world to peace, through the belief that they were doomed.

And did it work? Because I'd guess that an impending doomsday would bring out the worst rather than the best in people. Or maybe it would just polarise behaviour - some people would find religion, others would just shut themselves off, still others would loot, rape and murder. Interesting to ponder that, though.

[JohnRich 4]

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However, the world's leading scientists got together and decided to lie to the public about it, in order to bring the world to peace, through the belief that they were doomed.

And did it work? Because I'd guess that an impending doomsday would bring out the worst rather than the best in people. Or maybe it would just polarise behaviour - some people would find religion, others would just shut themselves off, still others would loot, rape and murder. Interesting to ponder that, though.

It worked in the book, but it was after all, just fiction. I suspect real life would be more like what you describe.