DeeBye,Feb 16 2006, 11:10 PM Wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betelgeuse
Man I love Astronomy.
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That reminds me of some rumor I heard awhile back. The rumor went something about a planet 'X' which had an ovular rotation around our sun instead of a circular one. Planet X is supposedly bigger than Jupiter and passes near Earth every 10,000 years causing earthquakes, flooding, and can even pull the Earth a distance from the sun causing global freezing but pulls it back into it's place 10,000 years later. Supposedly, this planet will pass near Earth in 2012, ironically the same time the Inca (or was that Azetc?) calendar ends, the Inca calendar counts backwards, from what, nobody knows.
I shrugged off the rumor as crap until I heard of a new planet discovered last year (I believe by NASA - too lazy to Google right now) larger than Jupiter in an ovular rotation around the sun. Interesting stuff.
Will we all die in 2012? I have the same take on this stuff as I do aliens and religion: I can't change what's going to happen, so I might as well enjoy my life everyday as if it's going to be my last and take the future as it comes. My fate is in my own hands!
"The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self." -Albert Einsetin