Collision with Planet X ?

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I've been reading some interesting articles that suggest that planet X could in fact collide with our planet within the next year or two along it's orbit around the sun. I know this is a non-Catholic topic but as u can see, it concerns anyone who cares about catestrophic events.

Anyone else read up on this ?

-- Oliver Fischer (spicenut@excite.com), February 20, 2003

Answers

This is from NASA. They've got to find a Planet X before they calculate whether it will run into us.

Relax and enjoy life! :-)

Mateo

-- (MattElFeo@netscape.net), February 20, 2003.


Just another reason to remain in a state of grace! We know not the day or the hour...

-- Anna <>< (Flower@youknow.com), February 20, 2003.

Anna, you're one step ahead of me. I was all ready to quote the Gospel parable of the thief in the night. Why worry if we constantly strive to be "children of the light?"

God bless you all!

Mateo

-- (MattElFeo@netscape.net), February 20, 2003.


Don't worry Oliver! After the war with Iraq it will be tens of bin Ladens who will make the hell on Earth, if not for all then for us! No need to wait for a planet X!

-- Karl (KarlMay@etc.net), February 20, 2003.

The fact that this prediction is primarily being made by psychics on Art Bell tells me all I need to know. ;-)

-- Christine L. :-) (christine_lehman@hotmail.com), February 20, 2003.


The fact that this prediction is primarily being made by psychics on Art Bell tells me all I need to know.

Me, too. Before you run out for more duct tape & baggies, or whatever else might help protect you from Planet X, you may just want to investigate the source of the hysteria and form your own judgements based on it.

-- jake (jake1@pngusa.net), February 20, 2003.


Maybe we could send an inter-planetary space-craft to find "Planet X" and duct tape it to another planet. Maybe Pluto? Then, with the incredible adhesive power of American duct tape, it won't be able to break free and crash into the Earth.

Hmmm....

-- (MattElFeo@netscape.net), February 20, 2003.


Proof positive that the ways of men are absolutely not the ways of God...

Aha, Mateo; I bet deep down inside this really has you really concerned... Hmmmmm. =0

-- Emerald (emerald1@cox.net), February 20, 2003.


I guess I am concerned about people who are looking to psychics as authorities on the end of the world. ;-)

Mateo (from Planet X)

-- (MattElFeo@netscape.net), February 20, 2003.


It's beem 500 years since Western man discovered the heliocentric reality of the solar system, and plotted the elliptical orbit of our world around the sun.

Yet, still people imagine that a Planet X could be orbitting on the "opposite" side of the sun from us! Trouble is, an elliptical orbit is not a perfect circle (ala Aristotle) but an oval. Doh!

secondly, every planet within our orbit would naturally reflect the suns rays - shining like a star as Venus and Mars do in the night sky. Thus, it would not only be easy to see - it would be unavoidable!

People from time immemorial would have seen the "star" every so often.

Only basic ignorance can account for planet X hysteria.

-- Joe Stong (joestong@yahoo.com), February 20, 2003.



planet X

Isn't that where Duck Dodgers went to find the Shaving Cream atom?

-- jake (jake1@pngusa.net), February 21, 2003.


Why worry about Planet X. If it hits, it hits. Besides I watched "Touched by an Angel". and I saw it miss. Close, but no cigar. And I am a Geocentrist!. Not many of us around, so in this stupid world, we must be right.

-- Ed Richards (loztra@yahoo.com), February 21, 2003.

Every experiment mounted to prove heliocentricity therefore proves geocentricity equally well, depending on how data are interpreted or what the experimenter's bias is. The Foucault pendulum, for instance, demonstrates equally well that the earth is rotating, or that the universe is rotating around it, or that other motions are taking place. It is the same with gyroscopes, synchronous satellites, parallax, coriolis effects, or whatever. About all that can be said with certainty about the Copernican theory is that it shows us how the universe would look to us if we were standing on the sun. From what we see, it could be true, but is it? Speaking of the limitations of the experimental method in arriving at certainty, Pierre Duhem, the eminent French physicist, wrote back in 1908

-- Ed Richards (loztra@yahoo.com), February 21, 2003.

I loved that Daffy Duck episode about Planet X! hahahahaha ;-)

It was such a classic "Duck Dodgers in the 24th and a half CENTURY"!

Note too, how deftly it delt with the insanity of Mutually Assured Destruction - and how blowing up a planet just to deny it to the next guy is so pointless.

All of which is why it is essentially immoral to use Nuclear weapons. And yet the dilema is "what do you do with them now that they've been invented?"

The Church has one answer: if every nation had sizable enough percentages of Catholics we'd keep the world from ever going to war with each other. Trouble is, we've never had enough holy and well formed Christians to do more than keep only regions at peace.

But in the end, Peace is a gift from God, not something obtainable here on earth. So long as there is sin and loose passions there will be fear and fear will lead to men arming themselves... so the armaments are nothing more than symptoms. You don't get rid of arms by getting rid of them, you have to first remove the reasoning and passions that create the fear that lead men to seek weapons!

-- Joe Stong (Joestong@yahoo.com), February 22, 2003.


Chesnuts Roasting on an open fire...?

Psychics chanting ‘round an open fire

Jack the Ripper says he knows

”You’ve been warned of a shower of fire”

And folks just fall like dominoes

Everybody knows a turkey with a horn to blow

Helps to make the people fright

Gullible tots with their eyes all aglow

Will find it hard to sleep tonight

They know Planet X is on its way

It’s packing lots of doom and death within its sway

And every telescope’s aimed at the sky

To see if apocalypse really come from on high

And so I'm offering this simple phrase

We’ve heard since a millennia times two

Although it's been said many times, many ways

"Repent of sins now; you’re through"

-- Emerald (emerald1@cox.net), February 23, 2003.



>The Church has one answer: if every nation had sizable enough >percentages of Catholics we'd keep the world from ever going to war >with each other. Trouble is, we've never had enough holy and well >formed Christians to do more than keep only regions at peace.

and here I thought there were bloody wars fought in Europe prior to the Reformation. . .

Silly me.

-- Jim Kennedy (grub_r_e@hotmaail.com), February 24, 2003.


I can't really get into this Planet X thing.

It seems like people would be more into this other one, comet NEAT C/2002 V1. There's some pretty cool pictures from SOHO of it passing the sun on Feb. 18th, and there's this 9 million mile CME shooting off the sun right at it, and looks like it hits the comet.

-- Emerald (emerald1@cox.net), February 25, 2003.


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-- Emerald (emerald1@cox.net), February 25, 2003.

"Bloody wars" hmmmm lets see here, pre-reformation European wars...

well, um, in Spain, there was no major Christian vs Christian fighting going on from 721 until 1492 as all their efforts were directed towards the reconquest... and after 1492, Spains efforts were directed towards the New World conquests...

Now, England did have a Christian vs Christian war in 1066 at Hastings in which the Normans conquered the Britons. The rest of European "wars" near those islands seemed to rotate across the channel with Normandy and later France. The highlight there was the "100 years war" with France.

Germany didn't exist per se until the 1800's, and Italy was a hog-pog of states and principalities until 1870. Hmmmmm still, if memory serves there wasn't a whole lot of widespread warfare from oh say 1098 until 1527 in Europe.

There were the crusades towards the Holy Land, and the crusade in France against the Albigensien Heresy, but again, those conflicts were hardly "Christian vs Christian".

Nope, I think by and large I was correct in asserting that large numbers of well formed Catholics in all countries would definately solve alot of problems.

Chile and Argentina for one did not go to war this century because of a Vatican brokered peace treaty. Peru and Equador also settled their dispute in the 1990's through Church mediation.

"Bloody religious wars" really only got going in modern times, and none compare with the atrocities and widespread damage unleashed by atheistic or anti-clerical regimes who have gone to war in the last 150 years.

This doesn't make Catholics perfect, and it doesn't mean we never fight amongst ourselves, but what I am trying to correct is a false view of history in which the Catholic Church and those monarchies are accused carte blance of the worst crimes when in reality and in perspective, those wars and crimes are triffles compared with what non-Catholic churches and regimes have done. No. The high middle ages were peaceful by and large. (That's when they built the cathedrals).

Peace friends,

-- Joe Stong (joestong@yahoo.com), February 25, 2003.


Why worry about Planet X. If it hits, it hits.

That's my opinion too !!

I take the day as it comes ==> One Day At A Time !!

Salut & Cheers from a NON BELIEVER:

-- Laurent LUG (.@...), November 09, 2003.


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