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Originally Posted by ADL Colin
Yeah I read about it this morning but I thought this guy's critique was pretty good.
http://www.michaelsheiser.com/nibirupage.htm
One thing that strikes one right away is how this "12th planet" according to that guy Sitchin who first hypothesized it says the planet will pass through our solar system close to Earth every 3600 years. No such cycle is attached to "Eris". The closest it comes is 38 AU. That doesn't fit no matter how you look at it. So I don't think it is all that mind-boggling. To start with you have to take this translation by Sitchin as true and then you have to assume that Eris is this object even though Eris isn't anything like that object (no 3600 year cycle; it doesn't come close to Earth). Sitchin is a quack anyway. he said "there may be an outpost in orbit around Mars preventing current humans from getting there". His books discuss among other things ancient aliens that created we humans as slave labor 450 millenia ago. Me? I'm gonna stick with Darwin.
Now if you are into this kinda thing. Ancient aliens that visit earth, seed the planet, and bring their knowledge to ancient civilizations more power to ya -- but i don't buy it. i mean "alternative archaelogy"? Here his book :: http://www.amazon.com/12th-Planet-Ea.../dp/038039362X
In general I'm not real excited about ancient civilizations supposed knowledge of objects that can only be seen with a telescope. 1. We have no knowledge that they had telescopes. 2. All such translations that I've seen are highly contested at best. There are no clear uncontested translations of such. |
Well that is supposing one takes Sitchin's work as fact... I have read all his books and he has some quite fantastical ideas. I don't agree with alot of his assumptions or beliefs. I am just now starting on a new book by Cremo called Forbidden Archeaology, also dealing with Sumerian civilization.
As far as uncontested translations... They do not exist. There are disagreements in every camp of specialists who deal in translating dead languages. And as it is with all things in life, you have to pick the side you are most comfortable with.
Me? I am more willing to believe in the possiblity of the impossible happening than others might. Logic can only go so far, just as imagination can go TOO far. Find that middle ground though and we might be closer to the truth than we think.
I mean face it, until 1930 we didn't know about Pluto, let alone Eris spotted in 2003. Yet the Sumerians, in whatever scientific means they had, depicted a solar system that seems accurate to this centuries understanding of it. That is all I find mind boggling.
As far as Pluto having once been a moon and in a different location I don't really put much stock into that. Nor do I this 12th planet that moves in every few millenia. Unfortunately we will never know the answers, but it is fun to speculate.
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