Do you believe in Planet x (Page 2)

Page2000: Planet X hides in the abstraction of it's 3600 year loop. It also uses the planet Pluto as it's sheild.

Sara Chelsey Taylor: Show me the supporting data

zzzx: hmmm we gotsa a discussion here

Sara Chelsey Taylor: not much of a discussion without supporting evidnce

zzzx: u right sarah

zzzx: mybe there is an unknown thing mybe not a planetoid but like a major comet or sumtin?

Sara Chelsey Taylor: show me any evidence that should be anything out there which has any significant impact upon us

zzzx: ok

duncan124:

Any other planet might have the same effect??

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/weird-science/will-you-float-zero-gravity-day-dont-get-fooled-again-n279001

Sara Chelsey Taylor: It is a hoax

duncan124:
LOL!

But the gravity of another planet is going to have some effect??

Sara Chelsey Taylor: comparably insignificant effect

LiptonCambell: Planet X was prorposed by Percival Lowell of the Lowell observatory almost 100 years ago.

You see, before we discovered Uranus, we knew it was out there- because if you watch planets such as Neptune and Saturn, they have a 'wobble'- as if they're being pulled by gravity by a massive object in the opposite direction. Some people calculated it, and using it the calculations, looked into the night sky, and, sure enough, there was Uranus.

As people discovered Uranus, they noticed it too had the trademarked wobble. Lowell in particular, was bothered by this. He spent his life searching for what he called "Planet X". Sadly, he died before his life work became a reality, and we discovered Pluto.

Fast forward to the 80's, and as our ability to scan the stars became better, we found more and more planets in that region(named Trans-Neptunian Objects, and planetoids, because of their small size)- there are tens of thousands of objects out there- some the size of a car, some the size of the island of Manhattan, but none all that impressive.

THAT is planet X- trans-neptunian objects. It was looked into through legitimate and reasonable means and methods that have been proven effective in finding planets.

The planet X you're suggesting, sometimes known as Niburu or Planet marduk, is a complete fabraication by a man named Zecharia Sitchin. Sitchin didn't do any scientific work- he mistranslated and re-intrepreted the origin story of the Sumers to accommodate for his beliefs in aliens. It's like if I were to tell you Aliens live in a nearby cloud, because of the Greek belief in Zeus.

http://www.sitchiniswrong.com/

zzzx: yea

zzzx: wat if there a planet z?

LiptonCambell: That's the proposed Planet marduk. All science fiction.

zzzx: well sumtin in our solar system doesnt adds up?

LiptonCambell: Why do you say that? Whats the problem?

zzzx: it jus feels too plain...it shouddnt be like this

LiptonCambell: Haha the Oceans seem kinda devoid of intelligent life- but that doesn't mean there HAS to be mermaids.....part of growing up is accepting that the universe doesn't give a shit on what you think oughta be....

zzzx: yea?

LiptonCambell: Do you honestly believe that every discovery was because people yearned it to be true? Early mans beliefs was that spitting in a wound healed it, or that if someone died in the water, it was because of sea monsters.

We must be willing to see what these kinds of thoughts for what they really are- wishful thinking- the kind of that holds us back from real progress.

There are real scientists spending their entire lives studying the stars and the universe- and there are conmen and charlatans who, rather than doing real work with real substance and help everyone have a better grasp of the universe, make shit up to sell books and dvd's that indulge peoples wish fulfillment in an effort for a quick buck.

One of these has a quiet dignity. The other is exploitative

zzzx: its rfeal

LiptonCambell: It's made up. There is no evidence of it besides some people sitting in a drum circle going "you know what'd be cool?....."