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Recent headlines have touted Monday, April 23 as the latest date that Nibiru believers think will be our last, but there's scant evidence to back up the idea and not even the man being credited with those predictions says it's so.
The world has been about at its end for a while now, if you believe the prognosticating involving Nibiru, a made-up rogue planet destined to slam into the Earth or at least disrupt the solar system enough to bring on extinction-level catastrophes.
The latest round of predictions that Nibiru will appear in the inner solar system to usher in the Rapture described in the Book of Revelations come primarily from author David Meade, who has previously predicted the arrival of the planet (sometimes called Planet X) on at least three earlier dates in the past year.
Meade told The Guardian that the headlines blaring that the "End of the World" will come on April 23 are "Fake news." Rather, Meade believes that Nibiru suddenly showing up on the scene this year will signal the beginning of a very long series of events eventually leading to the End Times, but not until over 1,000 years from now.
It doesn't bode well for the media as a whole when even repeatedly debunked peddlers of pseudoscientific apocalyptic visions are calling you out on your fact-checking.
NASA and many others have made it clear repeatedly that there is no rogue planet on a course with the inner solar system. There is, evidence, however, of an unseen planet far beyond the orbit of Pluto that is sometimes referred to as Planet X or Planet 9. This evidence points to a large object in the far reaches of the outer solar system that may be gravitationally influencing other objects in the region, far, far away from Earth.
And by the way, this evidence also indicates that if there is a large planet on the edge of the solar system, it too is orbiting the sun in such a way that keeps it always very distant from us. It isn't making a run at Earth anytime soon.
Those are the facts as we understand them based upon the best available empirical and scientific evidence.
That doesn't stop numerous Nibiru believers from conflating the actual Planet X that may exist with the fictional Planet X they believe is roaming the solar system billions of miles away in defiance of the laws of physics.
It's also a fact, though, that almost nobody thinks the Earth will cease to exist on Monday, not even those, like Meade, who would have us believe that the above scientific evidence need not apply to their ideas.
It's important that we get both sides right if we ever want to have a shot at a truly informed public that can confidently make plans beyond Monday night.
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Recent headlines have touted Monday, April 23 as the latest date that Nibiru believers think will be our last, but there's scant evidence to back up the idea and not even the man being credited with those predictions says it's so.
The world has been about at its end for a while now, if you believe the prognosticating involving Nibiru, a made-up rogue planet destined to slam into the Earth or at least disrupt the solar system enough to bring on extinction-level catastrophes.
The latest round of predictions that Nibiru will appear in the inner solar system to usher in the Rapture described in the Book of Revelations come primarily from author David Meade, who has previously predicted the arrival of the planet (sometimes called Planet X) on at least three earlier dates in the past year.
Meade told The Guardian that the headlines blaring that the "End of the World" will come on April 23 are "Fake news." Rather, Meade believes that Nibiru suddenly showing up on the scene this year will signal the beginning of a very long series of events eventually leading to the End Times, but not until over 1,000 years from now.
It doesn't bode well for the media as a whole when even repeatedly debunked peddlers of pseudoscientific apocalyptic visions are calling you out on your fact-checking.
NASA and many others have made it clear repeatedly that there is no rogue planet on a course with the inner solar system. There is, evidence, however, of an unseen planet far beyond the orbit of Pluto that is sometimes referred to as Planet X or Planet 9. This evidence points to a large object in the far reaches of the outer solar system that may be gravitationally influencing other objects in the region, far, far away from Earth.
And by the way, this evidence also indicates that if there is a large planet on the edge of the solar system, it too is orbiting the sun in such a way that keeps it always very distant from us. It isn't making a run at Earth anytime soon.
Those are the facts as we understand them based upon the best available empirical and scientific evidence.
That doesn't stop numerous Nibiru believers from conflating the actual Planet X that may exist with the fictional Planet X they believe is roaming the solar system billions of miles away in defiance of the laws of physics.
It's also a fact, though, that almost nobody thinks the Earth will cease to exist on Monday, not even those, like Meade, who would have us believe that the above scientific evidence need not apply to their ideas.
It's important that we get both sides right if we ever want to have a shot at a truly informed public that can confidently make plans beyond Monday night.
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