10th planet discovered, maybe

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8760309/

Very interesting. Wonder how many more are out there.

 

the more the merrier!! someday when we colonize other planets the new planet can be like the boonies/sticks/rural outcroppings of our civilization......

 

If the universe never ends, Infinity.

 

Its probably just another big solid ball of methane ice. They say pluto is mostly made up of ice. The thing is, we really don't have a classification on what makes a planet, a planet. I guess if it rotates around our sun, then it qualifies as one and if its a certain size. Other than that, cool. It will give more work for the elementary school children who have to write a report on all the planets of the solar system. Now they have an extra one to talk about lol.

 

Well, if you wanna know about some scary shit look up pole shift 2012. They've dubbed the planet Planet X and they've known it's existed for like..10 years...the government just won't let them confirm it exists because of the pole shift thing....

http://www.poleshiftprepare.com/poleshift.htm

If you don't wanna read the whole thing, to summarize, people think when Planet X is close enough to earth it will cause a pole shift, which pretty much says earth will start to rotate according to planet X's magnetic field......causing major earthquakes, etc....and they think it'll happen in 2012. The Mayan's also prophesied the world ending in 2012....

I'm just now reading about this stuff, which is pretty interesting, so I'm not an expert or anything.....just thought this would interest (or scare) people. Then again, plenty of other stuff has been prophesied and hasn't come true...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_X

 

strange coinsidence.

anyway, i heard the the information about the new planet wasn't suposed to quit the doors of the NASA, since they didn't know if they could officially call this a planet. But, from what i heard, the information was stolen from a hacker. That's what i heard on the news.

 

No they didn't, they just stopped writing their calendar up to that point, slightly different, wouldn't you say? considering the effort they had to take to calculate their calendar, I am amazed they bothered going that far.

As for that website, the first thing I read on it was:

I clicked off that site from that point, it's credence going straight out the window.

 

meh, and how far did they survived already?

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Depends on your definition of Mayan, the "proper" Mayans were wiped out about 500 years ago, but other "Mayans" existed up to the 1900's, then you have your descendants of the Mayans which aren't technically Mayan. So, depends really.

 

yeah, but you know, the civilisation.

thx for the info.

 

You guys keep scaring me with this 2012 world ending... :smt022

 

About 1500AD then, courtesy of the Spanish on a bit of gold plundering.

 

''Nooooooo!!!... I'm too young...to drink beer!!:smt022''

j/k;-)

 

Lol, well, I just clicked the first thing off google..maybe I should have read the begining instead of jumping down a few five paragraphs...but if you delve into the world of search engines theres plenty of information regarding the pole shift thing. I dunno much about Mayans or anything, I just started reading the stuff and found it interesting...

 

Funny you should mention that PheQuency, I actually read a whole lot about that.

The whole "12th planet" thing comes from a guy named Zacharias Stitchen, was like this German scholar in the 60s that started translating ancient Sumerian religious texts. According to him the Sumerians wrote about a 12th planet where the "Gods" were from.

The Saumerians wrote all their stuff down on these little copper or stone rolls, so that you could roll them onto a piece of clay or something and make multiple copies. Like a Playdough printing press, pretty ingenious for 3000 B.C.

Anyway it's called the 12th planet becasue in addition to our nine planets the Sumerians also counted the Sun and the Moon as planets. Aslo they knew about Pluto, Neptune, and Uranos (which were'nt discovered until the Renissance. Up until then Saturn was the last Planet in the solar system, and Pluto wasn't discovered until the 1920s)

So anyway, this guy Stichen claims that the 12th planet (which the Sumerians called Tiamat) rotates around the Sun every 3600 years, and depending on where the Earth is can cause major disasters like pole shifting, earthquakes, etc. He also says the Sumerian texts talk about "Gods," called the Annanaki, that come from this planet and that basically created human beings, or rather "civilized" primitive humans that were already here. There's a whole series of books about it, usually you can find them in the New Age section.

Interesting stuff, don't really beleive in the ancient astronaught thing myself (or rather I beleive that aliens have visited us in the past but doubt that they "created" mankind.) It is wierd that the Sumerians were aware of Neptune, Pluto, and Uranos when all they had was the naked eye. Of course other ancient civilizations were aware of these planets too (like the Maya, the Egyptians, etc.) Plus all the anicients knew things about the earth and astronomy that were forgotten, like the Earth is round, the planets go around the sun, etc. But this doesn't necessarily mean that aliens told them all this.

I'm actually writing an anime/magna series based on this (which is why I went to comicon this year, to talk to different publishers.) But instead of aliens I'm just making them "advanced" humans that have psychic DBZ type powers, plus there's ninjas in it. Becasue ninjas are cool.

One last thing, Tiamat is supposed to orbit the sun again in 2012. Creepy. And the Maya didn't just stop counting at 2012, that's when time for them actually "ran out," the end of this current cycle of creation. That myth is also found in Hinduism, where there's a 3600 year cycle of creation. But in Hinduism the earth is actually on the back of a giant turtle suspended in a sea of God's milk churrned by Demons, so there you go....

 

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:smt082

i wrote a something where aliens where in fact humans from the future, in a sci-fi and fantasy post apocaliptical story. if it can give you some ideas for you serie. good luck. ;-)

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yeah, that's what i thought when i readed. :smt082

 

is it really called Uranos ? and not Uranus ? So you can´t really make THE anus joke in english ?

 

i think it's uranus, just like in french (as well as many other languages).

 

Yeah, that 2012 website looks pretty crazy. If you want, you could go to an aviary, find a duck, and have all the quackery you'd ever need!

I wouldn't get too excited over the news of this new 'planet', though - NASA has found two other large planetary bodies in our solar system (Sedna and Quaoar) within recent years that have not been classified as planets. However, the fact that both of them are smaller and more distant than Pluto has been partially responsible for the debate; then again, as this new object is larger than Pluto, it might be looked upon more favorably in the quest for planethood. Of course, there are always the people that would argue (with reasonably good cause) that Pluto itself isn't a planet, as well...

Still a neat discovery, regardless of the symantics.

 

Yeah, it's Uranus. Doh!

Anyway, yeah there's no specific qualifications for an object to be a planet. So we'll see what they decide to call this thing.