(09-05-2011, 12:58 PM)abridgetoofar Wrote: So, hypothetically, if this thing gets here and is no more than just a regular comet, what would that say about the sources for all of these theories? Especially, say, Hoagland's...shouldn't making such a definitive statement place him in a "completely unreliable" category?
There seems to be a misperception about Richard Hoagland. He isn't the one saying Elenin will cause extinction-level catastrophic events, etc. Quite the opposite! He thinks that's all crazy stuff and shouldn't be taken seriously.
Richard Hoagland will be presenting at a conference the weekend of Sept. 25. He believes the comet to be artificial, based on statistical impossibilities, but doesn't think it will cause any catastrophic events because it's way too small and too far away. In fact, he indicates that all the fuss about it is way overblown.
Knowing what I know about him - ie. that he believes NASA to be corrupt etc. - for him to dismiss the conspiracy theories about Elenin, is very significant, in my opinion. This puts him in the 'reliable' category for me.
The thing that was still bugging me was the 'brown dwarf' apparently being blocked by google sky. But the more I think about it, the more I think it's bogus. If they really wanted to conceal it from the masses, they would have completely blocked it from view, not partially blocked it, so that we can see that there is obviously something there. To partially block it, is just too stupid, so it can't have been accidental. It's waaaaay too contrived. What is google sky anyway but software? Software can be rigged. If they rigged it to black out that section of the sky, then they would have made sure it was a total black-out. But they didn't. They left it as a teaser, seemingly for the express purpose of getting people all riled up and thinking that the power elite is trying to hide it from us because "they're planning an extinction event". How convenient. But if they really wanted to hide it, they would have hidden it. Assuming the black-out is even intentional at all and not just a normal glitch in the software, then it's obvious that they intended for it to be only partially blacked out! Why? What reason could they have for doing that? To get a fear response. The part that's blacked out isn't functioning as a black-out, but as provocation. They're screwing with us! It reeks of intentional disinformation, for the obvious purpose of fear-mongering.