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november2009_june_july_2009.qxd 23/11/2009 4:37 PM Page 16 16 Ask An Astrobiologist 16 Ask An Astrobiologist Nibiru and Doomsday you be sure you know more than they did? Question 10. What many websites do discuss is Nibiru and Doomsday the alignment of the Earth and Sun with the Calendars exist for keeping track of the 2012: Questions and passage of time, not for predicting the future. center of the Milky Way in the constellation of 2012: Questions and Answers The Mayan astronomers were clever, and they Sagittarius. This happens every December, with Answers no bad consequences, and there is no reason to developed a very complex calendar. Ancient calendars are interesting to historians, but of expect 2012 to be different from any other year. Continued from Page 15 they cannot match the ability we have today to Continued from Page 15 keep track of time, or the precision of the 12. When the sun and the Earth line up on 7. Can you explain the fact that the area at calendars currently in use. The main point, the galactic plane at the same time with the (5h 53m 27s, -6 10’ 58”) has been blackened however, is that calendars, whether black whole being in the center couldn’t that out in Google Sky and Microsoft Telescope? contemporary or ancient, cannot predict the cause something to happen, due to the fact People suggest that these have been future of our planet or warn of things to happen that the black hole has such a strong blackened out because those are the co- on a specific date such as 2012. gravitational pull. ordinates where Nibiru is located at present. I note that my desk calendar ends much There is a giant black hole in the center Several people have asked me about this sooner, on December 31 2009, but I do not of our Milky Way galaxy, and like any blank rectangle in Orion in Google Sky, which interpret this as a prediction of Armageddon. It concentration of mass it exerts gravitational is a presentation of images from the Sloan is just the beginning of a new year. force on the rest of the Galaxy. However, the Digital Survey. This can’t be a “hiding place” galactic center is very far away, approximately for Nibiru, since it is a part of the sky that could 10. What is the polar shift theory? Is it true 30,000 light years, so it has negligible effects on be seen from almost everywhere on the Earth in that the earth’s crust does a 180-degree the solar system or the Earth. There are no the winter of 2007-08 when much of the talk rotation around the core in a matter of days special forces from the galactic plane or the about Nibiru began. That would contradict the if not hours? Does this have something to do galactic center. The only important force that claims that Nibiru was hiding behind the Sun or to do with our solar system dipping beneath acts on the Earth is the gravitation of the Sun that it could be seen only from the southern the galactic equator? and Moon. As far as the influence of the galactic hemisphere. But I too was curious about this A reversal in the rotation of Earth is plane, there is nothing special about this blank rectangle, so I asked a friend who is a impossible. It has never happened and never location. The last time the Earth was in the senior scientist at Google. He replied that he will. There are slow movements of the galactic plane was several million years ago. “found out that the missing data is due to a continents (for example Antarctica was near the Claims that we are about to cross the galactic processing error in the image stitching program equator hundreds of millions of years ago), but plane are untrue. we use to display the Sloan survey images. The that is irrelevant to claims of reversal of the team assures me that in the next run through, rotational poles. However, many of the disaster 13. I am scared about the fact that the Earth this will be fixed!” websites pull a bait-and-shift to fool people. will enter the Dark Rift in the Milky Way. They claim a relationship between the rotation What will this do? Will the Earth be 8. If the government knew about Nibiru, and the magnetic polarity of Earth, which does swallowed up? wouldn’t they keep it a secret to avoid panic? change irregularly with a magnetic reversal The “dark rift” is a popular name for the Isn’t it the government’s job to keep the taking place every 400,000 years on average. As broad and diffuse dust clouds in the inner arm of population at ease? far as we know, such a magnetic reversal the Milky Way Galaxy, which block our view of There are many objectives of doesn’t cause any harm to life on Earth. A the galactic center. The entire “galactic government, but they do not include keeping the magnetic reversal is very unlikely to happen in alignment” scare is pretty crazy. Late in population at ease. My experience is that the next few millennia, anyway. But they falsely December the Sun is always approximately in sometimes parts of the government do just the claim that a magnetic reversal is coming soon the direction of the center of the Galaxy as seen opposite, as in the frequent references to various (in 2012) and that this is the same as, or will from the Earth, but so what? Apparently the terrorist threats or warnings about driving trigger, a reversal of rotational poles. The con-men who are trying to scare you have accidents on long holiday weekends, which are bottom line is: (a) Rotation direction and decided to use these meaningless phrases about no more dangerous than any other time. There is magnetic polarity are not related. (b) There is no “alignments” and the “dark rift” and “photon a long history of associating bad things with reason to expect a reversal of magnetic polarity belt” precisely because they are not understood political opponents (older readers will any time soon, or to anticipate any bad effects by the public. It is too bad, but there is no law remember the “missile gap” in the 1960 on life when it does eventually happen. © A against lying on the Internet or anywhere else election, younger ones will note the many sudden shift in rotational pole with disastrous except in a court of law. As far as the safety of current references to who is or is not keeping consequences is impossible. Also, none of this the Earth is concerned, the important threats are the U.S. safe from terrorists). Further, social has anything to do with the galactic equator or from global warming and loss of biological scientists have pointed out that many of our any of the other nonsense about alignments that diversity, and perhaps someday from collision concepts of public panic are the product of appears on many of the conspiracy theory with an asteroid or comet, not the Hollywood, while in the real world people have websites. pseudoscientific claims about 2012. a good record of helping each other in a time of danger. I think everyone also recognizes that 11. When most of the planets align in 2012 (Continued on Page 17) keeping bad news secret usually backfires, and planet Earth is in the center of the Milky making the issue even worse when the facts Way, what will the effects of this be on planet THE ‘X’ ZONE RADIO SHOW finally come out. And in the case of Nibiru, Earth? Could it cause a pole shift, and if so with Rob McConnell these facts would come out very soon indeed. what could we expect? Monday - Friday Even if they wanted to, the government There is no planet alignment in 2012 or 10 pm - 2 am Eastern could not keep Nibiru a secret. If it were real, it any other time in the next several decades. As to on the TalkStar Radio Network or would be tracked by thousands of astronomers, the Earth being in the center of the Milky Way, www.xzonetv.com amateurs as well a professional. These I don’t know what this phrase means. If you are astronomers are spread all over the world. I referring to the Milky Way Galaxy, we are Now, visit the all new know the astronomy community, and these rather far toward the edge of this spiral galaxy, www.xzonepodcast.com scientists would not keep a secret even if some 30,000 light years from the center. We where all the latest ordered to. You just can’t hide a planet on its circle the galactic center in a period of 225-250 ‘X’ Zone Radio Shows way to the inner solar system! million years, always keeping approximately Can Be Listened To the same distance. Concerning a pole shift, I or 9. Why does the Mayan calendar say the also don’t know what this means. If it means Downloaded. world will end in 2012? I have heard that some sudden change in the position of the pole they have been pretty accurate in the past (that is, the rotation axis of the Earth), then that That’s www.xzonepodcast.com with other planetary predictions. How can is impossible, as noted in the answer to