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Questions about Nibiru?

Hello,

I've been seeing various online media items about this apparent threat to earth called 'Nibiru' (ie the large object allegedly threatening to hit this planet on Dec 21 of this year) and, though I remain skeptical that it will even come close to us (given that space is obviously enormous, I think it'll just miss, though I don't claim to know the science), I do wonder about a few things which I'm interested in hearing others opinions about:

* If Nibiru does exactly what many are worried about it doing (ie plows into this planet wiping every living thing out), what do those who are religiously inclined (I'm not devout but I am open to the concept with proof, as opposed to faith) feel will become of god if earth and humankind are both destroyed? Will that mean heaven and hell also cease to exist?

* What are the chances of Nibiru, if it were to enter our solar system, hitting somewhere OTHER than planet earth (eg Jupiter)? Why are some so convinced that earth is the one in line when there are plenty of other objects in our solar system it could hit (including the sun)?

* If you believe in there being an afterlife, what do you believe will happen to you if earth is destroyed?

I saw some somewhat suspicious Youtube sciency videos on '2012 (and now)/2013 predictions for galactic disaster' (literally just one or two) and I think this is how it's going to be from now on - nothing will happen in 2012 so the skeptics will begin to find reason to worry about 2013 (at a guess because it has the number '13' in it, but could be anything), as the Youtube videos I've begun noticing are hinting at doing.

I find it reassuring that some are so quick to revise their dates we should all worry about; just tells me no one really knows anything.

Personally, I'm more concerned about a dirty great solar flare, if anything in the galaxy'll be wiping us out any time soon.

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  • Mike
    Lv 7
    9 years ago
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    To make it simple, you can try answering your own question

    Everywhere in your question where you had the word 'Nibiru', substitute the word ''Santa Claus''.

    Now... go through your entire question - reading it out loud - saying 'Santa Claus' rather than 'Nibiru'. ANd now... answer the question for 'Santa Claus'.

    The answer for 'Nibiru' is **exactly** the same as it is for ''Santa Claus''.

    As a re-check, you can try substituting the word ''tooth fairy'' for ''Nibiru'' - it will also give you the same results.

  • Gary B
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    1) Any object as big as Nibiru is supposed to be, and was on a path to hit us on December 21 (less than six weeks away) would be COMPLETELY VISIBLE IN THE NIGHT SKY by now, and getting visibly bigger every day. Soon, it would be visible in the daytime, too. If it were still "hidden behind the sun" then it would be too far away (almost 125 MILLION miles) to be able to hit us in less than 6 weeks.

    THERE IS NO NIBIRU!

    2) Solar Flares side-swipe us almost every day. What do they do? They make pretty Northern (and Southern) Lights!!!

    For a Solar Flare to HARM us, it would have to be pointed straight at us. Now, the earth, being about 8000 miles in diameter, presents a "target" of about 201,061,930 square miles.

    But a Solar Flare can flying out in ANY direction from the Sun! The Sun has a surface area of about 6,093,334,854,000 square miles, 30,306 TIMES larger than the earth!

    Therefore, the chances of a sunspot being aimed DIRECTLY at us are about 30306-to-1 or about 0.00033%. ASTRONOMICALLY SMALL!

    Not impossible, but very VERY improbable.

  • Silent
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    There is no need to worry about whether Nibiru will hit the Earth or "just miss", because Nibiru is not real. It is a hoax. Fictional. It does not exist in the real world, only in the minds of conspiracy nuts.

    The reality is that if an object of that size were on a collision course with Earth, due to impact in just under two months, it would be clearly visible in the night sky to half of the Earth. Hundreds of millions of people would be able to see it. Yet no one — not one person — has actually seen it, or offered any kind of credible evidence of its existence.

    Solar flares are not capable of "wiping us out". Massive solar flares happen all the time — there have been several big ones this year already. Did you even notice?

  • Paul
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    What you posted makes no sense, how can you require proof that there is a God but blindly accept the unqualified and unsubstantiated claims about this planet Nibiru?

    Nibiru doesn't exist period. It's not going to hit us and it's not going to miss us, it's not heading towards us or away from us it simply isn't there and never was.

    For every one person who beleives in this 2012 stuff there are millions who believe in one of the major religions with a heck of a lot more conviction, so if conviction alone is enough to convince you of the truth of something why not adopt one of the major world religions?

    If you don't believe in God why on earth would you belive in Nibiru? It makes no sense.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    "Nibiru" is an historic Babylonian be conscious. They used it to describe a nebula and it became their call for the planet Jupiter. Zecharia Stitchen in 1976 wrote a e book called The twelfth Planet the place he claimed he had translated some historic Sumerian texts speaking approximately Nibiru (Nibiru in no way had any connection in any respect to the Mayans till the final couple of years some nut situations tied the two hoaxes mutually, oh and via the way in actual life the Maya in no way estimated the tip of the international besides). Stitchen became a liar and the texts he claimed to translate had no longer something to do with Nibiru. In those days however very few people would desire to translate Sumerian (Stitchen became no longer one among them). Nibiru became in no way meant to hit the Earth nor became it a doomsday. Stitchen claimed the Annunaki, that have been the Sumerian's gods, have been certainly aliens residing on earth and that they had bio-engineered people to mine gold for them. He claimed that each few thousand years Nibiru would make a exact bypass via the Earth and the Annunaki would swoop in to collect their gold. That became approximately it. the subsequent time he claimed they may be close to became approximately one hundred years from now. He in no way claimed it would hit the Earth, or reason any failures, much less in 2012. there became yet another nutcase however named Nancy Leider who claimed aliens had "chosen" her to warn the Earth that Planet X became going to wreck the Earth in 2003......9 years in the past. After that "doomsday" got here and went merely like all the others some nuts replaced the Planet X hoax slightly and cobbled it which comprise another hoaxes. subsequently Stitchen's Nibiru and altered the date to make the main of the Maya hoax. fairly the Maya in no way estimated a doomsday, whether they had who cares? As to "the place it would be interior the sky" and "how enormous it would be" that's form of a moot element isn't it? thinking the actuality that that is all an staggering bunch of bulls***. you could desire to think of it anyplace interior the sky you desire, and as super or small as you desire.

  • 9 years ago

    Nibiru doesn't exist, if it did astronomers would have discovered it by now (and ancient Mayans certainly wouldn't have predicted it). If it did exist it would be very likely to hit Jupiter rather than us. It's large gravitational field is actually one of the reasons that we are currently relatively protected from asteroids.

    Also, Solar flares aren't powerful enough to wipe us out, although a really big one could knock down all of our electrical systems and send us back to before the industrial revolution for a while.

  • John W
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    If Nibiru existed, don't you think it would be pretty big in the sky by now with only one month to go...

    Solar flare can't wipe us out, it might give power crews some overtime.

  • 9 years ago

    It's already been suggested but it's likely any large body orbiting the Sun in some wildly eccentric orbit probably would have been detected years ago anyway, if only by gravitational lensing. And would very likely be visible now.

    Anyone going on about 2012 end-of-the-world craziness is not to be believed. As a Christian I understand Jesus said that no-one knows the time of The End except God the Father, and if anyone says "the time is near" and soforth, he is not to be believed. So I advise that if anyone says things will end on such-and such a date, you can bet your bottom groat it won't happen on that date. And none of us believers will be expecting it to except the easily swayed by false prophets and teachers.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Nibiru doesn't exist. It is made up fiction.

    Skeptics are hardly worried about 2013. Like not at all.

  • 9 years ago
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