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Hunt For Ninth Planet Reveals Distant Solar System Objects (carnegiescience.edu)
schwit1 writes: Astronomers have discovered several new objects orbiting the Sun at extremely great distances beyond the orbit of Neptune. The most interesting new discovery is 2014 FE72: "2014 FE72 is the first distant Oort Cloud object found with an orbit entirely beyond Neptune," reports Carnegie Institution for Science. "It has an orbit that takes the object so far away from the Sun (some 3000 times farther than Earth) that it is likely being influenced by forces of gravity from beyond our Solar System such as other stars and the galactic tide. It is the first object observed at such a large distance." This research is being done as part of an effort to discover a very large planet, possibly as much as 15 times the mass of Earth, that the scientists have proposed that exists out there.
The proposed ninth planet is only suggested by looking at the orbits of other bodies.
Nibiru, on the other hand, is made up by the same dickheads who believe in chemtrails and reptilians, and who for some reason think the ancient fucking sumerians were our masters in all things astronomy.
So there is a difference, for those that have brains functioning well enough to discern it.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
I've been shaking my head at all the "let's re-invent matter in immeasurable ways that fit a very roughly deduced model of the expansion of the universe to account for the missing dark matter". And I've *especially* been enjoying the ongoing discovery of more and more Oort cloud matter and even cold interstellar bodies that could account for the "dark matter" by far, far more ordinary physics. It's cold, so it doesn't radiate detectably. It's quite dense compared to the interstellar void in which the objects exist. And the bodies seem to be more and more *common* possibly explaining the increased gravitational effects of the entire cosmos.
Too bad it doesn't require any unjustifiable and unprovable alternative quantum magical-unicorn-ponies-with 47-dimension-mathematical-lassos, just better measurement tools to show the experimental error in the original Hubble expansion and interstellar density measurements. And 80 years of bad, unverifiable physics mathematical meta-wanking goes right out the window. Hopefully they can take the magnetic monopole and the Higgs Bogon along with them.
Enough with the "we used to think" the earth was flat, humans couldn't fly, etc. We don't. We know physics now. It isn't going to happen
Yes some of us do know something about physics though it sounds as if you might not be in that particular group. To my knowledge there is nothing we know about physics that prohibits us from someday traveling at a significant fraction of C. There are abundant engineering challenges and dangers to be sure but that's a different issue. I'm claiming that there is no known reason why we couldn't accomplish that feat. You are claiming it is categorically impossible. Ergo the onus is on you to disprove the null hypothesis that high velocity travel is possible.
You can always detect a space nutter because they always say "well we USED to think" and then extrapolate that all things are possible.
You can detect a cynic because they claim things are impossible without any actual evidence to back them up. Since you seem to think you are smarter than the rest of us go ahead and show why it is provably impossible for humans to ever travel at a meaningful percent of C. Your Nobel prize awaits if you can do it. Otherwise you can leave your cynicism at the door.