In what sounds like a chilling script of a Hollywood science fiction, scientists have claimed that an invisible star, five times the size of Jupiter, might be lurking near our solar system, occasionally kicking deadly comets towards the Earth.According to scientists, the brown dwarf star is up to five times the size of Jupiter and could be responsible for mass extinctions that occur on Earth every 26 million years.
They believe that the star nicknamed Nemesis or 'The Death Star" could be hidden beyond the edge of our solar system and only emits infrared light.
It is believed to orbit our solar system at 25,000 times the distance of the Earth to the Sun, the scientists said.
A "chilling script of a Hollywood science fiction,"` eh? Clearly a job only Hollywood stars are capable of handling -- paging Sean Penn! Yoo-hoo, George Clooney! Pick up the white phone, Susan Sarandon! Your rocket blasts off tomorrow at 6:00 a.m. We`ll radio with instructions once the screenwriters figure out what you should do.
Bon voyage!
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Comments (3)
Well, if "scientists" say it's so, it's gotta be true! They're like so smart! Especially the Government and U.N scientists!
Every notice how we're told "scientists NOW say blah blah blah..." whenever they need all us non-smart people to forget what they told us previously.
Kinda like how we go from being told a new ice age is going to kill us all, then the next decade we're told that we're all going to fry. And on and on it goes.
Funny how they sound like those old fashioned fire and brimstone preachers.
Hey!! Maybe that’s what they are!
Posted by Blame Crash | March 15, 2010 9:42 PM
Posted on March 15, 2010 21:42
this silliness was on tv awhile back. methinks the hubble would have seen a planet that small.
Posted by old white guy | March 16, 2010 6:40 AM
Posted on March 16, 2010 06:40
This idea gets recycled every couple of years. Its the old planet X theory. Asimov even wrote a book about it called 'Nemisis'.
Posted by Alex | March 16, 2010 9:01 AM
Posted on March 16, 2010 09:01