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30 Ending The Planet X Saga 30 Ending The Planet X Saga The Planet X Saga: The I laughed out loud when I first heard him say STAR TREK TRIVIA The Planet X Saga: The STAR TREK TRIVIA Scientific Arguments in a this; I was sitting in my "luxurious" 10x12 foot Scientific Arguments in a Nutshell office that I shared with a coworker. It was so * The classic line "Beam me up, Scotty" was Nutshell cramped we couldn't both push our chairs back Continued from Page 29 at the same time. never actually delivered. The phrase comes Continued from Page 29 The assertion that I am some kind of from the command Captain Kirk gives to his transporter chief when he wanted to return to They are also produced by naturally spook is silly. Think about it: I am a the ship. The closest he came to saying it was radioactive elements, many of which can be professional astronomer, with a traceable "Scotty, beam us up" in the original series.. found as impurities in the metal of the camera history of doing relatively good science (I have assembly. They are a nuisance, so you have to a dozen or so journal articles with my name on * The line "to boldly go where no man has gone understand how to take care of them. them). How much money do you think I could before" was taken almost verbatim from a make if I started a cult about Planet X? I could make as much money just as easily by writing a White House booklet on space issued after the book and getting on talk shows. I could name Sputnik flight in 1957. It's also the world's best- my price to Fox TV. So there is no monetary known example of a split infinitive - to be incentive for me to debunk Planet X, unless I grammatically correct it should say "to go truly believe it isn't real. If you think the boldly". government would give me more money than Fox TV, then you are beyond any logic I can * The flip open communicator that crew used to provide you. talk to the Enterprise has been credited as an Ironically, and in fact, all the Planet X early design model for the mobile phone. A real- purveyors are known liars, or at least deceptive. life version of the hand-held phaser that went Since they have no evidence I am a from stun to kill - hence the "phasers on stun" order - is said to be being developed by the US Shockingly, Ms. Lieder doesn't disinformation agent, and yet they still call me military.. understand how to do this, nor do her acolytes. that, they are knowingly lying. They may They consistently and persistently leave in these believe it's true, but they have no evidence of it, * Preparing for the role of Spock, actor Zachary hot spots, and then claim they are Planet X. and so cannot honestly state that claim as truth. Quinto shaved his eyebrows and dyed his hair - Seriously! They are not a gigantic planet about Hazlewood has claimed on many then admitted he felt like "a nerd". to kill us all, but instead are dinky little protons occasions that I spend time fighting him who have had the unfortunate fate of slamming because he is "on to something". That's a silly * A study found that children learn more about into the electronic chip on the back end of a statement. Imagine yelling a racial slur at science from Star Trek than from any other telescope. Correctly processing the images someone on the street. Don't you think they source.. would make those spots disappear, as has been would get angry, and perhaps even argue about shown by others. This would be somewhat more it? Wouldn't you, if someone attacked * Some of the ashes of both Star Trek creator difficult with a whole planet. something you loved for no reason and without Gene Roddenberry and James Doohan, who By the way, Ms. Lieder has claimed on any merit to their arguments? played chief engineer "Scotty" have since been numerous occasions that Planet X would be The claims that I am deluded are just as blasted into space aboard NASA rockets. naked-eye visible months before its passage, yet silly. I actually have evidence that what I say is she also claims it appears as a faint dot in the correct, and also show exactly where Lieder and * Captain James T. Kirk's middle name is images she herself supplies. Which is it? She the others are wrong. All they can do against me Tiberius.. says lots of contradictory things, which is yet is cry about a government conspiracy with no another good reason to disbelieve what she is evidence whatsoever. So do you agree with * Joan Collins had a role in 1967 episode The saying (another example, not to be indelicate, is someone with lots of evidence, or someone with City On The Edge Of Forever in which the crew that she said (through her channeled aliens) that none whatsoever, just hearsay, deception, and/or time-travel back to Earth. She played a social the then-missing Washington intern Chandra outright lies? worker who Kirk falls in love with - but has to Levy was alive and well and living in Mexico. Conclusion: There is no evidence that I let die. If he didn't she would change history... Ms. Levy's remains were found shortly am anything but who I say I am: a and Hitler would win World War 2.. thereafter in Washington, DC). professional astronomer who loves astronomy, Remember, we are dealing with people and doesn't like hearing the Planet X * Gene Roddenberry's wife Majel Barrett was with zero experience in astronomy, let alone purveyors misleading others about it. Slurs the voice of the ship's computer. She recorded astronomical imaging. They are easily fooled; (and let's face it, slander) against me do not for the new film before her death last year. don't forget that Mr. Hazlewood mistook a support the existence of Planet X. Hubble image of Jupter's moon Io for an image * To watch all 726 episodes, including spin-offs of Planet X! So you might want to think twice The Grand Conclusion and 11 films back-to-back would take three before believing what they say. They don't want weeks.. you to think twice; from the evidence I have Planet X doesn't exist, and we are in no seen, they don't want you to think at all. danger from a giant planet, rogue or * Bourne star Matt Damon turned down the role Conclusion: fake pictures and real otherwise. Lieder, Hazlewood and the of Captain James T Kirk in the new Star Trek ones that are misinterpreted do not support the film. existence of Planet X. rest of that group are wrong. They may be consciously lying, or have a tenuous I am not a government grasp on reality, but in the end it doesn't * British comedy actor Simon Pegg took lessons from his Scottish wife Maureen McCann to help disinformation agent. matter: they are still wrong. [] him with the accent for his part as "Scotty". Just about every purveyor of Planet X has said * The original Sixties Star Trek series was at some time that I am a liar, or deluded, or a pulled after three years and 79 episodes on US paid NASA or NSA or CIA disinformation TV because of low ratings. But the reruns agent. James McCanney told a bare-faced lie on became so popular it won a cult following and the radio, saying I have a "mansion" and a is now broadcast in more than 100 countries "luxurious office" (it's a lie because he doesn't across the world and on over 120 TV stations in know what kind of home or office I have, America alone.. therefore he knows he cannot make any conclusions about them, and therefore he lied). 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