Franco said:I'm not exactly sure, though I haven't seen too much mention of a twin sun system in the mainstream.
Franco said:Any body seen this yet?
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-universe/nemesis-the-suns-evil-twin-1558121/
"And so there'd start to be a few more comets than usual, and then suddenly there are just comets, comets coming all the time"
Laura said:Check out this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgdNH68RZ98&feature=relmfu
It all begins to look like a concerted disinfo program.
Possibility of Being said:One conclusion of the video is: that's right, it's already happening in the Oort Cloud, but that's a light year away so we have enough time to figure out how to prevent the multiple cometary impacts. Yeah, right...
Don Genaro said:That's something that occurred to me - they probably only need to buy themselves a year or two tops so they just put it a few light years away...
Possibility of Being said:Don Genaro said:That's something that occurred to me - they probably only need to buy themselves a year or two tops so they just put it a few light years away...
Anyone knows what approx. speed they travel with throughout the space when they get kicked out? I know it depends on a few factors, like their masses, the dwarf's speed, an angle between those bodies and so on, but is there a range that can be assessed roughly?
Charlie Prime said:The Ort Cloud is 1 light year from from earth. Light travels 186,000 miles per second.
Comets travel about 20 miles per second.
It could be a while.
Charlie Prime said:The Ort Cloud is 1 light year from from earth. Light travels 186,000 miles per second.
Comets travel about 20 miles per second.
It could be a while.
Charlie Prime said:The Ort Cloud is 1 light year from from earth. Light travels 186,000 miles per second.
Comets travel about 20 miles per second.
It could be a while.
Windmill knight said:I don't think that the distance of 1 light year makes any difference, because we don't know for how long the Oort cloud has been disturbed. It's just that they noticed the disturbance when making the infrared survey last year, but that could have been happening for centuries already. Also, what they are saying to calm the audience is that the disturbance is caused by Tyche, the hypothetized giant planet, and they say it's not big enough to launch comets at us. It's much speculation on their part with a good dose of wishful thinking - or intended disinformation.
Still, I think it's quite interesting that the topic made it to the History Channel, which is as mainstream as it gets. It means that, if it's damage control, they think it is necessary to take the official position to the mainstream already. Or perhaps the intention is to get the meme out there in preparation for the time when bad news need to be dropped on us, I don't know.
PoB said:Yup. It also seems a bit weird to me that they claim they noticed the disturbance in the Oort Cloud, while the Oort Cloud itself is still a hypothetized object?
"When we look out into the sky and look at where the comets are coming from, their directions tend to concentrate in certain regions of the sky. One possible explanation for that is that that skew is being directed by a gravitational perturbation from an unseen object that is out there."