The Rumor is...

...that a planet called Nibiru or Planet X is on a very long, elliptical orbit and will collide with Earth, or at least enter the inner solar system, in 2012, but maybe before. Still hasn't happened in 2012? That's ok, then it will some time before 2015.

Information instead of disinformation. Clarity instead of hoaxes, scams, rumors and urban legends.

This claim actually goes as far as "presenting evidence". This evidence ranges from cheesy amateurish images, over 3d presentations, crop circles (!) and the undisputable evidence called text slideshow. There is nothing quite as convincing as lines of animated white or green text on a black background.

A search for "Nibiru" on Youtube brings up 122,000 video results, which is pretty amazing considering that the planet doesn't even exist...

Some of the people spread fear in order to make money, sell their books, DVDs, or simply have the most hits on YouTube. Why anyone actually believes this without at least checking some veritable sources is a mystery, possibly best investigated by someone in the field of psychology.

The Origins of the Rumor

Speaking of selling books, that is how all of this got started. Back in 1976 Zecharia Sitchin wrote a book called "The Twelfth Planet" about the planet Nibiru which orbits the Sun every 3600 years. The claim was refreshed in 1995 by Nancy Lieder, an abductee who received a message from Zeta Reticuli extra-terrestrials. The doomsday date was May 2003. That didn't work out? Sorry... I meant December 2012.

Speaking of Veritable Sources

Who comes to mind when speaking of astronomy? Let's try NASA and see what they have to say about this.

In an article on Discovery.com David Morrison says:

As a scientist, I'm both fascinated and astonished by the deluge of questions from people who are genuinely frightened and, apparently, unable to distinguish astronomical fact from fiction. They're watching YouTube videos and visiting slick Web sites with nothing in their skeptical toolkit, or to quote Carl Sagan no "baloney detector."

We seem to live in a time when an abductee is more trustworthy than a scientist & a Youtube video is all the evidence the world needs.

Written by Sabina Nore
March 6th 2010.

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