Can anyone use Starry Night to disprove this so people stop asking!?

Question

Can any one use Starry Night software to-

A) Disprove Galactic alignment on Dec. 21 2012and...

B) Disprove that an asteroid or "planet X" will hit us that day.

Get this BS over with im tired of seeing these ill informed questions popping up every hour or so.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Probably. But I don't think it would stop the questions. The askers don't really care about "proof". No matter how many times you "show" a kid there's no "monster" under the bed, it always comes right back as soon as the light's out.

Fear isn't logical.

Maybe we should just learn to ask " What are you REALLY afraid of ? " Maybe.... some might start learning how to think for themselves and find their own "proof".

Answer 2

The "galactic alignment" happens every year, and is a very rough alignment, 6 degrees off. I don't need Starry Night for that. Not that it makes any difference!

Any decent star atlas will show this clearly. The 2012 kooks don't care in the slightest, because they aren't interested in facts.

Ditto a colliding body: there are no such bodies in Starry Night, and nothing has been seen in the sky, but the kooks don't care, because they aren't interested in facts.

As always, there is no need to prove "business as usual". If the 2012 morons say something is going to happen, they need to prove it.

Answer 3

(A) The upcoming alignment is nothing more than the coincidental alignment of the Winter Solstice sun with the galactic equator.

(B) "Starry Night" only has the information programmed into it, so, no, it can't predict that an asteroid or Planet X will hit us.

Answer 4

I agree with posters above. I have already used my Cartes du Ciel software to demonstrate to myself that the "alignment" is nothing unusual as opposed to any other year - part of the problem is that I don't know precisely where the exact center of the galaxy is. But it would not matter. They don't know either. Those that are pushing the conspiracy theory are not interested in the truth. They are only interested in getting people to listen to whatever they have to say. The truth only gets in the way.

Answer 5

Hold on to your keyboard.  The questions will continue, regardless of what we say.  There are far to many books to sell, to many young minds to scare.  The hoaxers will not stop now just because you have Starry Night.

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On December 21, 2012, the position of the December solstice will be at its closest to the Galactic equator.  It is inescapable as the Long Count calendar was actually built that way.  It was planned to arrive at the start of a new count just as the solstice passed the Galactic equator.  For an astrologer, that is sufficient to call it a Galactic Alignment.

It is not an alignment with the Galactic centre.  That is impossible:  the southernmost declination of the Sun is -23.44 degrees, while the declination of the Galactic centre is -29.

When the Sun passes the Galactic equator, nothing should really happen because the Sun already passes the Galactic equator twice a year, every single year (around Dec. 21 and June 21).

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It has already been disproved at least thousands of time that neither planet X nor Nibiru nor any other planet of this solar system or of anywhere else in the Galaxy will hit us.

As for asteroids or comets:  Earth gets hit almost every day by comets and asteroids.  Small ones.

Anything big enough to cause large scale destruction is tracked and we know that we are safe for many decades to come.

But, of course, we are all secret agents of the government, intent on fooling the population by hiding the impending doom.  (Yeah, right)

Answer 6

You know, if I lived near History Channel HQ and I heard it was burning down, I'd turn up with a few bottles of kerosene.

I don't mind answering this stuff.  If you are 14 - 15 you have no idea where to go to get real answers.  Textbooks are usually far too old.  People have the idea that government can't be trusted (with good reason in some matters) and I would not trust some of the churches either.  Some ministers are probably as clueless as anybody when it comes to this sort of stuff though many probably have not even heard of it.    Teachers, well one asked me once what the origins of the seasons was.  Admittedly she taught English.  

The thing about it is that at least some of the kids are asking.   How many out there are not asking and have swallowed this nonsense hook line and sinker?  At least we can sow the seeds of doubt about this stuff.

Answer 7

I've got Starry Night and it allows user defined objects to be programmed in. I've therefore programmed in "Nibiru" as an Earth sized object in a 3600 year orbit passing at its closest to the Sun on December 21st 2012 (which is what the 2012 cranks tell us about it). Currently "Nibiru" is 13.7 Astronomical Units from Earth and has a visual magnitude of 7.4, therefore easily visible in binoculars. So it should have been spotted a long time ago. We can therefore conclude that the object the cranks are telling us about is not there.

As for galactic alignment, this is where the Sun, in its annual circuit of the sky, passes in front of the band of light around the sky which we call the Milky Way. It does this twice a year, every year, so there is nothing in the least unusual about the phenomenon in 2012. They may try to tell you that in 2012, the Sun is exactly on the Galactic Equator at the Solstice. Well it isn't. It was in 1998 but is slowly moving away. The alignment is rather less exact in 2012 than in 2011, 2010,...

Alignments mean nothing anyway. If Object 'A' is in line with Object 'B', so what?