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Post by uncled on Feb 16, 2011 5:30:01 GMT -6
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Post by skywalker on Feb 16, 2011 8:21:18 GMT -6
Since when have experts ever been right about anything? They have been debating this topic for years. Some claim that the sun has a binary twin on a 27 or 65 million year orbit, others claim it is a dark star, others a giant planet...some theorize it might even be a black hole. There is tantalizing evidence that something is lurking just outside of our solar system and is waiting to pounce. There was a huge mass extinction that happened aproximately 65 million years ago that wiped out the dinosaurs. We arte due for another one. Maybe those 2012 end of the world prophecies aren't so unrealistic after all.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2011 10:42:02 GMT -6
I was just reading about "Tyche" as they call it. What I don't understand is that we have telescopes that can scan the galaxy for earth like planets, how can they miss one in our own solar system that is allegedly 4 times the size of Jupiter? Go figure. This is really going to add fuel to the Nibiru enthusiasts. "The researchers have been collecting data for the last 10 years, and though they admit the unusual orbital patterns in a far-out region of the solar system called the Oort Cloud could be explained by a ginormous planet, it also could be a statistical fluke." search.yahoo.com/search?p=planet+tyche&fr=buzzlogsrp&gid=94291I still think that our 'visitors' might be hanging around waiting to catalog and study some unusual cosmic happening. Since they don't really want to be pals with us they must have some other reason for being here and if there are different 'types' as sketchy UFO data suggests..then it follows suit (to me) that something is going to occur that interests them. Just my pet theory
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2011 13:45:12 GMT -6
I was just reading about "Tyche" as they call it. What I don't understand is that we have telescopes that can scan the galaxy for earth like planets, how can they miss one in our own solar system that is allegedly 4 times the size of Jupiter? Yes, we do have telescopes which can scan the galaxy Jo, but the problem of detecting such a massive "Dark Star" is a simple one. The human eye is able to "see" things by absorbing the light which reflects off of objects. Highly reflective objects appear as the color white. Objects which absorb light appear as black objects. Telescopes and cameras also function using this same principle. When the shutter of the camera lens opens, it absorbs and records the reflection of light. What happens if you're in a dark room? Can you see your hand in front of your face? Nope. Can you take a picture of your hand without a flash? Nope. It's easy to spot planets that are close to their suns in the "Goldilocks Zone"... because their suns give off a lot of light... However; THAT far out in the solar system, if there IS a Brown Dwarf star which is NOT emitting light, we cannot see it because it's too dark out there. It's too far away from the sun. If it is orbiting around the sun too in such a long orbit as they hypothesize, there is probably no way we could even guess where it could be. It would be like shining a flashlight with a very very narrow beam all around you in a HUGE dark room trying to find a thumbtack stuck in one of the walls or ceiling when the walls and ceiling are a mile away and the rest of the room is cluttered full of basketballs flying around. The main reason why they think it exists is because of what little they know of the effects of gravity. The presence of a very dense dark object would explain why certain comets do weird things and come from odd directions. They cannot see the object, but they can see the effects of such an object. The only question I have with this article is... if this theoretical object is a "Star" then why are they saying it probably has "moons"? Stars don't have moons, stars have planets. Planets have moons... ~shrug~ What they need is a really big flashlight... ;D ~shrug~
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2011 14:38:50 GMT -6
Uncled's article is saying the premise is that it is a gas giant planet possibly with it's own moons and not the brown dwarf some are expecting. "Tyche was first hypothesized in 1984 as Nemesis, a dark companion star to the sun. It's been the subject of astronomical research and debate ever since. In July, another Space.com article said the celestial evidence suggests Tyche could not possibly exist. To distinguish it from the Nemesis star theory, Matese and Whitmire are calling their object Tyche, after the good sister of the goddess Nemesis in Greek mythology." Leastwise that's what I gather from it. I guess we'll know when it orbits close enough.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2011 15:03:13 GMT -6
Gas Giant... Star... they're both big balls of Gas. ~shrug~
The article says it could be one or the other. A big ball of gas by any other name is still just a big ball of gas. Let's just call it that to avoid confusion.
God, I hope it won't orbit close enough...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2011 16:15:06 GMT -6
Send it some Gas X? If it gets 'that' close...we'd better hope for some divine intervention
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