Re: is the Soho Images claimed to be Nibiru a hoax
I surpose what is fasenating is how this all points to 2012 and all the material that has been wrote about it from many past cultures
Which "many past cultures"? As far as I know, it has only been one: The Mayans. And their calendar was tied to the completion of one cycle of the precession of the earth's pole (NOT a "pole shift"). Everyone else that has come along has simply created their stories (like a pole shift!) and hung them on the Mayan calendar saying "THIS is what they Mayans were predicting."
It is really not that different than all the Y2K doomsday prophecies, with one exception: The Mayans were good astronomers and set their calendar based on a much longer timeframe astronomical cycle than the earth traversing around the sun.
also the facts that some of the so called researchers
have wrote about who make these claims...
It is to sell books and get attention. Don't you understand that? Take a look at the kinds of BS that Peter Novak slings in other forums here...he is an "author". You have to generate attention to yourself and your books in any way you can to make money. It is all about getting people to buy books so that the author can then charge speaking fees and go on the convention speaking circuit (where they again pimp their book AND take in a speaking fee).
but there has been a series of things that do keep suggesting that there MAY be something to it....
Planted on the internet by people selling their books, or their surrogates. The internet is a VERY cheap place to advertise your wares. And when you do what some people do in these forums, it is essentially FREE.
Some early suggestions are making out this is a Nasa cover up...
Always the government conspiracy angle. Now you know precisely why this thread was moved from "TT Claims" over here to the Conspiracy forum.
As you run the time travel forum do you have similar issues with other posters who write about time travel theories....
Of course I do, and I challenge them regularly in those other forums. In most cases it is quite easy to destroy their claims and lay-open the fallacies they put forward with good ole science. If you go back far enough in this thread, I actually, methodically destroyed most of the early claims made by "Timeline_39". I even showed where he falsified himself!
and IF you say did not really believe TT is possible, why would you run such a forum....
I've explained this in the other forums many times.
1) To do my part in exterminating "bad science claims" and exposing them for what they are.
2) To develop a body of work that shows how wild claims are challenged scientifically. And this is for...
3) To direct my freshman engineering students to this board to get an idea of what critical thinking is, and how it can help prevent you from going down a dark trail based on your emotions and feelings.
I am just curious if you make similar comments on all the other threads... and what if any do you actually consider may not be hoax related... and WHY do you read all those posts that probably will be time wasting hoax related materials esp if you dont belive in UFOs and Aliens etc..
See above. One could also consider this one of my hobbies. That and by keeping the mind challenged in this way, it keeps my mind sharp with respect to the scientific method.
Who knows...maybe someday I will write my own book about defeating internet hoaxes with good science. Might not make the bestseller list, but at least I can fight fire with fire! /ttiforum/images/graemlins/smile.gif
I come on this forum and others as these things do interest me... and I supose I am looking for those gems that do really make me question things that are hard tto explain...
There are much better places to do this than internet forums, and these other places will actually improve your critical thinking skills not to mention teach you the basis for a lot of the science that makes our lifestyles possible. Without trying to insult you, if you come to forums like this al wide-eyed and ready to believe (instead of ready to seriously question), then you are really doing more damage to your mind than you are expanding it. Mind pollution. This is a question that only you can answer: Is your INTENTION really based on "hey this might be true...I should collect more information" or is it more "This sounds like a crock, and I need to see more solid evidence before I accept it"?
INTENTION determines your future. Not bad scifi stories slung by people trying to sell their books.
RMT
