Believers in Mysterious Planet Nibiru, Comet Elenin Await Earth's End

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Planet Nibiru???

By Natalie Wolchover
Published July 24, 2011
| Space.com


Renowned astrophysicist Carl Sagan once described a "baloney detection kit" — a set of tools that skeptical thinkers use to investigate any new concept. A few of the key tools include a healthy distrust of information that isn't independently verified, critically assessing an idea rather than becoming irrationally attached to it simply because it's intriguing, and a preference for simple explanations over wildly speculative ones.

The waxing obsession with the planet Nibiru , which conspiracy theorists say is a planet swinging in from the outskirts of our solar system that is going to crash into Earth and wipe out humanity in 2012 — or, in some opinions, 2011 — shows that an astonishing number of people "are watching YouTube videos and visiting slick websites with nothing in their skeptical toolkit," in the words of David Morrison, a planetary astronomer at NASAAmes Research Center and senior scientist at the NASA Astrobiology Institute.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/...#ixzz1T4nHV7dK

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Heaven's Gate (religious group)

The logo used by the Heaven's Gate group Heaven's Gate was an American UFO religion based in San Diego, California, founded and led by Marshall Applewhite (1931–1997) and Bonnie Nettles (1928–1985).

On March 26, 1997, police discovered the bodies of 39 members of the group who had committed suicide in order to reach an alien aircraft which they believed was following the Comet Hale-Bopp, which was at its brightest.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_(cult)

[Articulate_Ape]

BWAHAHAHAHAHA! Love the smiley!

[Rockntractor]

Makes a good combo too!

[ABC in Georgia]

BWAHAHAHAHAHA! Love the smiley!

Dagnab you SR ...

Am doing my best just to read in these forums, and now I am forced to log in and agree with the Articulate One.

I too, just love this little "hair on fire" smilie!

He is so adorable, will just have to steal him for my personal emails as well!

:p ~ ABC