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Freakonomics Talk – Climate Change Control 191 comments
“Anyone with a $100,000 can change the earth’s climate”
Sounds a lot like….
Politically, the world would never agree to geo-engineering. So, let’s say chemtrails, or other similar conspiracies are real, maybe it’s for our own good.
Planet 7X 879 comments
A Mr Gil Broussard has refined an intriguing version of the Niburu Cataclysm, discovered by a pattern in Biblical catastrophes and Ancient Chinese astronomy records, and supported by his use of a free NASA computer model available online.
He claims that roughly every 300 years a large unknown planet about 6 times the size of Earth, at around the same density of the Earth, enters and exits our orbital plane. The biblical and Chinese sources of sightings in the sky and natural disasters are roughly spaced out by 300 years, with fluctuations assumed to be caused by orbital interference by the gravity of the other planets in the solar system as it passes through. He claims that it is comet-like in substance. It’s predicted to come into our orbital plane between March and September, 2016.
The basics of the theory make some scientific sense. Firstly, Astronomers have recently found strong evidence for a Planet X, which is somewhere between the size of the inner planets and the outer planets. But this recent prediction is for a planet with 1500 year orbital period, placing it much further into the Oort Cloud than Gil’s Planet 7X. The evidence for this planet, however is based around a model that it is shepherding several other irregularly orbiting objects in and out of the Oort Cloud. This is the latest in over a hundred years of hypothesized planet Xs to help explain slight fluctuations in Neptune and Uranus’ orbits. So at a basic level, the idea of large undiscovered planets with irregular orbits that swing in and out of the edge of the solar system is well established in the scientific community.
So the question is, is it possible that there is an astronomical blind-spot allowing for the possibility of Gil’s theory being right? Yes. The recent evidence for Planet X in the mainstream is far from the unanimously agreed upon location for Neptune’s disturber, and is not even claimed by it’s proponents to be certain. Also, basic chaos theory shows that as soon as you have 3 or more bodies in a gravitational system calculations explode in complexity (the Three Body Problem). So, with the 8 major known planets, recently discovered exoplanets and smaller objects, and likely more to be discovered or undiscovered, a lot of wild cards are at play.
And of course, no need for a blind spot when those with eyes only lie, and those that are honest can’t see!
If a body had an extremely elliptical orbit as suggested by the quickness in it’s entrance and exit from Earth’s Orbital Plane and the long orbital period, than it would be traveling extremely fast as it came and went like a comet, in the 10 to 70 kilometers per second range. Comets are not easy to predict, unless they’re period is short enough that there’s a reasonable historical record of them, like Hale-Bop. Of course the size of the object that Gil’s suggesting would make it easier to spot. But perhaps we will, as we are still a month away from it’s purported approach.
The characterization of it as a comet in it’s material description, it’s elliptical orbit, and the ancient disasters and sightings do hold up as a story. A comet-like semi-massive planet would release large chunks as it is wailed by the Sun. It may even carry it’s own mini system of sloppy moons that peel off of it as they get sucked out other planets’ gravities.
Gil Broussard’s ability to bring these ideas together and make something plausibly also speaks to his intelligence, which compounds the possibility that his calculations are right. That is before you get into his connections to prophecies, warning signs for the coming disasters, and general Apocalypse talk. But hey, who knows? The only way to find out is to test his calculations with rigorous physics calculations. Maybe someone else has done this for us. Not likely, with his youtube hits only in the 10s of thousands. And who has time to do that themselves? Especially with the world ending this summer!
Why not just relax and check out his sweet charts and visualizations as we lie in wait for oblivion: