The End of the World is Nigh Part II

Many keen observers will have noticed that the world completely failed to end yesterday when Mercury did the hokey cokey in front the Sun. The Sun was not impressed the constant glare was enough to send Mercury on its way.  However you may remember the Youtube prophet did hedge his bets by saying:

...warns that this could be a sign that this could be interpreted as the end times for humanity.

I think that perhaps it is going to be a slow motion disaster and really kick off in sixteen months time (September 2017) when Planet X aka Nibiru is meant to be doing a close flyby.  Closer enough to suck continents off the planet, apparently the US government has built hundred and thirty underground bases in advance of its arrival.  I can only assume they are on parts of the planet where the continents are well and truly stuck to the magna below or perhaps they have some fancy anti-gravity device that keeps them firmly connected to the planet.

What are the origins of Planet X I here you ask, well scroll back to 1846 after the discovery of Neptune when astronomers were wondering whether perhaps there might another planet beyond Neptune.   Planet X (x = unknown) was suggested by Percival Lowell as hypothesis to explain why Uranus and Neptune had discrepancies in their orbits.  A large unseen planet could perhaps account for the irregularities.

Percival Lowell died in 1916 having failed to find his planet, however in 1930 Clyde Tombaugh discovered a planet which was later named Pluto.  Honouring Percival Lowell, as his initials made up the word's first two letters.  As it turned out Pluto could not be Planet X because it was way too small.

Scroll forward to 1989 when Voyager 2 did a flyby of Neptune and it was found that its mass was at least 0.5% less than first thought.  The Jet Propulsion Laboratory recalculated the orbits of Uranus and Neptune, the irregularities vanished and so did Planet X's need to there.  I suppose X could of been elsewhere at the time...bowling perhaps.

Now scroll forward five years and we get The Nibiru cataclysm put forward by a lady called Nancy Lieder who:

...has the ability to receive messages from extraterrestrials from the Zeta Reticuli star system through an implant in her brain. She stated that she was chosen to warn mankind that the object would sweep through the inner Solar System in May 2003...

2003 someone must have got their maths wrong, wow a stupid alien perhaps forgot to move the decimal point.  Working in base 14 must be a pain and then having to convert back to base 10 for us even more stupid folk on planet Earth.

Seriously though my problem is if it just over a year away why has not a single amateur astronomer spotted it yet, except in the form of exceptionally bad Youtube photographs.  In this day and age of modern digital photography you would think they could get one decent shot of it.  Much like all the bad shots of UFOs, Aliens and Elvis.

To read more about the cataclysm check out the Wikipedia article.

Apparently it is a massive government cover up (literally), they are using reflective panels in that part of sky so nobody notices.  Who knew?  Apparently the entire Internet but it is a well kept secret!  Except for those bad photographs of course those Men in Black must had turned down the opacity levels to moon someone.

Occam's razor rules and often gives a close shave except in the Chaotic universe of Nibiru where anything can happen.

The End of the World is Maybe Nigh

You know I have lost count of the number of times the world has been prophesied to end, still here after 2012 all that doom and gloom for that year all based upon the Mayan calendar because it finished in that year obviously nobody ordered new calendars 2013.  I sure the Spanish invasion probably put a dent in orders.

This time it is some chap on Youtube talking about the transit of Mercury passing in front of the Sun and the number three:

The Prophetico released a video last week analysing the correlation between the alignment of the planets and star constellations, suggesting this natural phenomenon could be of grave significance.

Mercury’s rare passing in front of the Sun on Monday, May 9 occurs only around 13 times a century and last took place in 2006.

What I love is that he is hedging his bets which is rare for a doomsayer:

The Prophetico explains that the moon will be exactly three days old at the time of Monday’s 7.5-hour Mercury transit which is significant as it is related to sex sins in the Bible.

The Prophetico warns that this could be a sign that this could be interpreted as the end times for humanity.

It is shame he brought in the Bible a book that has been translated many times and heavily edited by various different incarnations of the Church and not actually written down until several hundred of years after the events described in the book.  Lost in translation ring any bells.  Excerpt from Wikipedia below:

...the original Greek writings and manuscripts written by the original authors of the New Testament, have not survived. But historically copies exist of those original autographs, transmitted and preserved in a number of manuscript traditions. When ancient scribes copied earlier books, they sometimes wrote notes on the margins of the page (marginal glosses) to correct their text—especially if a scribe accidentally omitted a word or line—and to comment about the text. When later scribes were copying the copy, they were sometimes uncertain if a note was intended to be included as part of the text. Over time, different regions evolved different versions, each with its own assemblage of omissions and additions.

The Bible has become like modern day statistics which if you cherry pick what you want from the data you can reach the answer you were looking for.

Back to the 'Prophetico' the newspaper Express web article says:

The website summarises: “Judah will have to suffer in exile, although with the understanding that God will eventually thrash their enemies.

However I cannot find his website anywhere and the domain name is up for sale so perhaps he is leaning towards it ending.  Considering the quote above I think Judah is a reference to Edward Snowden it so fits with the text.  Oh look there's me cherry picking too, it is practically a national past time.

The main problem I have with any numbers or calendaring relating to ancient books written by man is the issue of the actual age of the planet.  Which at rough count is four and half billion years old or written in number form: 4,500,000,000 Okay I admit it does not sit well on the calendar and it is going to be a long year to say on a regular basis.  Taking any calendaring system produced by man in this context is arbitrary at best.

The other issue I have is man's arrogance assuming that we are somehow special in all the universe, to be put our existence into context:

...the modern form of humans only evolved about 200,000 years ago. Civilization as we know it is only about 6,000 years old, and industrialization started in the earnest only in the 1800s.

Astronomers are still working on the age of the universe but their best guess it about fourteen billion years old, so when someone pops up in the media says the world is going to end based upon the Bible and some arbitrary number systems we have come up with, I take it with a pinch of salt.

Real ways the world could end:

• Yellowstone national park volcano erupts that would be bad
• Bloody big asteroid smashes into the planet bad also
• I could die, it would be the end of world for me, very bad
• Earth, the alien TV show could be cancelled - okay probably not real

These are just a few of the potential disasters waiting round the corner.  If the world does end tomorrow I will happy in the fact that I will not have to get up early to go to work.  Of course if I am dead it will not matter at all, I am sure the universe can get along without me it certainly did before I was born.

It is all a matter of perspective and so the best course of action is to have fun.