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Astrophysicists: Best case scenario is the end of Western civilization as we know it.

 
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What perturbations? Who's reporting perturbations that need explaining? That should be the big news, not the hypothesis of what's behind it. Some cart before the horse going on there.


The electromagnetic "heating up" of the solar system, magnetosphere breakdown, purported change in Mercury, etc...
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In astronomy, perturbations implies a change in a planet's location from where it was predicted to be. At least, that is the connotation. If some star is having an effect on the inner solar system in the ways you describe, it would be close enough to induce just such a perturbation. The problem is, no such perturbation exists. That leaves the sun itself as the cause.

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A brown dwarf I could buy, though I am wary of accepting the possibility at the moment... but a neutron star is just absurd.
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Holy shit! It took only 4 minutes for Astronut to "find" this thread and type up a response to it.

Now, I'm really fucking scared regarding the existance of this supermassive object.
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Total bullshit. There is no appearance of a star with that magnitude in the heavens. Maybe in a billion years, but not now. All you have to do is look up and see for yourself


BTW, the approaching nuetron star does not emit light, and therefore is not visible to the naked eye. It does emit radiation and has a substantial gravitational force. It's affecting the entire solar system. It turns out our sun is a variable star (not stable) and is in a binary system with the neutron star.

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It's a brown dwarf, emits hardly any light and reflects none., infra red telescopes can see it. Coincidentally that's what NASA sent up to see it and they have another in Antarctica
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It's a brown dwarf, emits hardly any light and reflects none.,
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First of all, you do realize a brown dwarf and neutron star are mutually exclusive, right? Second of all, a brown dwarf will reflect light. Thirdly, a brown dwarf at the edge of the solar system could be detected in visible light with a suitable telescope (very dim, but doable). Could one still be hiding out there in the deep? Yes, but to say it'd take an infrared telescope to see it is incorrect. One would help, but would not be necessary for confirmation. Close to the inner solar system it could be detected by eye. Run the calculations on the apparent magnitude of the Gliese 229B brown dwarf in visible light versus its distance to us and you'll see what I mean. Lastly, NASA does not have a telescope in antartica, but a conglomerate of universities do under the funding of the national science foundation.

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Ummm. While a neutron star has about 1.5 solar masses, the typical SIZE is around 15 miles in diameter. That amounts to looking for a needle ina haystack. And NO, you wouldn't see this massively dense, yet small object as it emits most of it's light as X-rays.
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There are orbital perturbations on the outer planets.

No, there are not.
[link to adsabs.harvard.edu]

Plus, the Entire solar system would be near equally effected

LOL, where's the proof of that? Do you have any idea of how wide the solar system is? The effects on Jupiter and Saturn alone would be wildly different right now because of how far apart they are from each other. The gravity the two would feel from a hypothetical massive object approaching the inner solar system would be quite different.

The gravitational effects are beginning.
- No more use of high rise cranes. The slightest change in gravity causes them to fall. Many cranes were inspected just prior to collapsing.

LMFAO! Oh, so it effects the planets all the same many AUs apart, but the height of a crane causes the gravity felt to change and causes it to fall. Absolute bullshit double-talk.

- Bridges are less stable, more collapses. Explains the cover up report of how bad US bridges really are.

Same as above. More bullshit.

- Increased Earthquakes Undeniable increases

Same as above. More bullshit. If tidal forces are causing earthquakes, they'd be affecting the different planets VERY differently. You can't have it both ways.

- Increased Volcanic activity Undeniable increases

Same as above. More bullshit. If tidal forces are causing earthquakes, they'd be affecting the different planets VERY differently. You can't have it both ways.

- Greater high/low tides beyond casual explaination. Oceans around the world have seen unexplainable increases in tide maximum/minimum. Up to 4' beyond normal

Same as above. More bullshit. If tidal forces are causing earthquakes, they'd be affecting the different planets VERY differently. You can't have it both ways. In fact, the fact that you just tried to have it both ways disproves your theory right there. You're done.

- Entire solar system heating up Due to the heat from the inbound star increasing the heat all planets receives

Where the hell is it optically then? If it's that luminous we would see it. I calculated the apparent magnitude above, it would be naked eye brightness even at 1 light year away.

- Increases in Sun bound comets from South the solar system. Recently about 6 very large objects hit the Sun in a couple of weeks. Very rare to have 3.

Kreutz group comets frequently hit the sun and are NOT rare. Thousands have been found since SOHO started observing. The ones that hit recently were not even close to "very large." I've spent a lot of time searching for comets with SOHO, those were not unusual at all.

- Incoming rocks, comets and meteors is now classified data This was big news a year or so ago

Bullshit! I'm an amateur astronomer and like all amateur astronomers I can announce whatever I find regardless of whether it's "incoming" or not. There is no cover up, the information is not classified, in fact you can see all current threats as soon as they're found; amateur help is enlisted in getting observations to improve the orbital calculations. The only thing that was classified were observations made by spy satellites observing earth that sometimes see fireballs that are already hitting earth, not shit that's still "incoming" after the observation is made. What you did is you took this headline at face value rather than reading what it really said:
"Military Hush-Up: Incoming Space Rocks Now Classified"
[link to www.space.com]
If you read the story you find that the observations by spy sats of fireballs was classified, not "incoming space rocks."

- Seed vaults and other great underground structures being built in the shadows We all know the popular seed vault

How is this proof of a neutron star? It could just as easily be proof of rich people buying into the globullwarming scam. This is handwaving and does not necessitate "death from above."

- The oldest library owned by the Vatican was disassembled and disappeared. Vatican said it had a crack in the foundation and needed to close for repairs. The library hasn't closed in the longest time, hundreds of years. Now it is gone.

More handwaving to unrelated bullshit.

- Solar cycle expected to be very intense. This is known

Again, this in no way proves anything, it's just more useless handwaving. You might as well handwave to hurricane season forecasts.

- Governments world wide are moving critical systems inland. In example, the CIA, FBI, Homeland Security, ect all moving to the hills

Are we done with the useless handwaving yet? You're boring me.

- Historical information. Nearly every ancient culture has written about a great event that can be easily seen as what we are talking about now.

You mean, easily be shoehorned into what you're talking about now. Confirmation bias. It's like the guy I was arguing with about wormwood. He thinks it's a brown dwarf, I and most other christians disagree, but you see what you want to see to fit your world view.

- The greatest astronomers in recorded history are the writters of 12/21/2012. The Mayans have a calendar and astronomical knowledge that is still superior to modern day technological accomplishments.

Bullshit. The mayans were off by more than a dozen years; the alignment they were aiming for in 2012, the year the sun supposedly aligns with the galactic core on winter solstice, occured most directly in 1998 and is now tapering off each year. 2012 is almost at the tail end of the alignment, which finishes in 2016. Close, but no cigar, and no match for modern techniques and technology.

And using a government official reports won't work since the governments already stated they wouldn't release such information if it were true in fear of social collapse.
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Holy Crap Batman, are you paid by the word or by the hour?

Translation; "I'll reject all your sources and plug my ears because I don't want to challenge my beliefs."
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If you don't want to challenge your beliefs, you wouldn't be posting at GLP. Unless you have an agenda.

Your either the typical brainwashed sheep or a paid shill.

Your voluminous reply is obnoxious and full of hate predigious only to the size of my disbelief one could be so small minded!
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Ummm. While a neutron star has about 1.5 solar masses, the typical SIZE is around 15 miles in diameter. That amounts to looking for a needle ina haystack. And NO, you wouldn't see this massively dense, yet small object as it emits most of it's light as X-rays.
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Size is irrelevant as all stars and most asteroids already appear as point light sources due to their size/distance ratios. Before you can say whether we would or wouldn't see it you need to look at the actual hard numbers. Size is irrelevant; it'll appear to be a point light source just like every other star. Absolute magnitude in visible light is the ONLY thing that matters. If you run the numbers you'll see that yeah it'd be dim by eye, but easily detectable by telescope.

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Fascinating interview with Benjamin Baruch who interview two expert astrophysicists. They confirmed a companion neutron star to our sun that has an elliptical orbit of approximatlely 24,000 years. It's nearing the solar system and causing major problems between 2011 and 2017. (The earth's core heating up which is fragmenting the magnetosphere, the appearance of multiple north and south poles/shifting, windspeed bursts nearing mach 1, tsunamis, continental plates shifting, etc...)

12/21/2012 is only one day in the midst of what will take place over a 7-year period. All governments are aware and are preparing bunkers for the elites and TPTB.

Best case scenario: The end of Western civilization as we know it. Loss of life on the magnitude of 30 - 50% of the population.

Worst case scenario: (You don't want to know!)

Confidence level of the astrophysicists: 99.9%

IMHO, it's worth listening to:

[link to www.watchmanscry.com]
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This is absolute DECEPTION, and I pity the people who will actually BELIEVE this tripe.

Yeah... There's an ENORMOUS time of Tribulation coming, but (like 2012) all of this nonsense spoken of by the OP is just a Satanic diversion from what is REALLY happening. Just another effort to distract you from what you REALLY need to be focusing on.
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If you don't want to challenge your beliefs, you wouldn't be posting at GLP. Unless you have an agenda.
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Of course I'm willing to challenge my beliefs, I do it every time I put someone's claim to the test and see how the numbers or observations match up, but YOU are not which is why you said from the get-go you'd reject any "government sources" you didn't like out of hand rather than addressing the content... much like how you pretty much ignored everything I said.
Your either the typical brainwashed sheep or a paid shill.
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Ad hom, so typical, so boring.
Your voluminous reply is obnoxious and full of hate
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Your post was full of BS, what did you expect? You expect you can just lie about things like incoming rocks being classified and get let off easy?

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Astronut...

Reply to this... Explain why you as a human with limited eyesight from specific light rays would see a Neutron star by the naked eye or telescope for that matter when the definition is quite clear that Neutron Star's emit only X-Ray light and are only detectable by such method!

It would be greatly appreciated if you would do so!

A celestial body consisting of the superdense remains of a massive star that has collapsed with sufficient force to push all of its electrons into the nuclei that they orbit, thus leaving only neutrons, and having a powerful gravitational attraction from which only neutrinos and high-energy photons can escape, rendering the body detectable only by x-ray.
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Astronut...

Reply to this... Explain why you as a human with limited eyesight from specific light rays would see a Neutron star by the naked eye or telescope for that matter when the definition is quite clear that Neutron Star's emit only X-Ray light and are only detectable by such method!

It would be greatly appreciated if you would do so!

A celestial body consisting of the superdense remains of a massive star that has collapsed with sufficient force to push all of its electrons into the nuclei that they orbit, thus leaving only neutrons, and having a powerful gravitational attraction from which only neutrinos and high-energy photons can escape, rendering the body detectable only by x-ray.
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To add:

Neutron stars can be observed occasionally, as with Puppis A above, as an extremely small and hot star within a supernova remnant. However, they are more likely to be seen when they are a pulsar or part of an X-ray binary.

This tends to bring question to the visibility of a Neutron Star by our normal vision or telescope. What say you?
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Ummm. While a neutron star has about 1.5 solar masses, the typical SIZE is around 15 miles in diameter. That amounts to looking for a needle ina haystack. And NO, you wouldn't see this massively dense, yet small object as it emits most of it's light as X-rays.

Size is irrelevant as all stars and most asteroids already appear as point light sources due to their size/distance ratios. Before you can say whether we would or wouldn't see it you need to look at the actual hard numbers. Size is irrelevant; it'll appear to be a point light source just like every other star. Absolute magnitude in visible light is the ONLY thing that matters. If you run the numbers you'll see that yeah it'd be dim by eye, but easily detectable by telescope.
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Look. I am not saying there is or isn't a neutron star in our vicinity, I AM saying, that if there was, a telescope isn't going to tell you it's there.
You are only thinking in apparent luminosities. Neutron stars are not measured in apparent luminosities as they do not emit visible light. They are measured by Bolometric Magnitudes NOT Absolute. The only reason Astrophysicists know they exist is by the radio and X-rays they emit (or in the case of solitary neutron stars, only X-rays). Sorry Dude.
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Not everyone has a Hubble in their backyard!

More:The Hubble Space Telescope succeded in taking an image of a neutron star located less than 400 light-years away from Earth.
This star was previously detected by its Xray radiation, indicating a surface temperature around 700,000°.
Its diameter is less than 28 km

Im thinking it's much more difficult to locate and VIEW said anomalous bodies in space than you suggest.

Don't get pissed just answer with a specific how to, if you can do so. That way your method for doing so may be tested by any person with a NORMAL telescope. Simply by going outside and attempting to view one in a known location by your method.

Sound sensible? I thought so!
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Astronut...

Reply to this...
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Ooooh, aggressive.
Explain why you as a human with limited eyesight from specific light rays would see a Neutron star by the naked eye or telescope for that matter when the definition is quite clear that Neutron Star's emit only X-Ray light and are only detectable by such method!
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Only x-ray light? They may emit mostly x-ray light, but they still emit some amount of visible light, just not nearly as much. Hubble saw this one hundreds of light years away... in visible light:
[link to mm04.nasaimages.org]
This particular neutron star is quite dim, granted, at magnitude 25 and a distance of about 400 light years. If it were only 1 light year away, however, it would be magnitude 12 - easily in the grasp of most amateur telescopes with or without the aid of a CCD. If it were orbiting with a period of what was it, 24,000 years as claimed here, then it would be, at most, about 2000-3000 AUs distant. Let's be really generous and call it 4000 AUs distant. At that distance it would be magnitude 6 - visible naked eye magnitude.

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Not everyone has a Hubble in their backyard!
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See my calculations above. You wouldn't need a hubble in your backyard to see the very neutron star you mentioned if it were in fact in a 24,000 year orbit of the sun as claimed in this thread. In fact, you wouldn't need any telescope at all, just your eyes and a dark sky.
Don't get pissed just answer with a specific how to, if you can do so.
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The "how" would be to look and hope one is there within thousands of astronomical units instead of thousands of light years.
That way your method for doing so may be tested by any person with a NORMAL telescope. Simply by going outside and attempting to view one in a known location by your method.
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You want to see one far from earth? Well it being visible is usually contingent on it being close to the solar system. If it's within a light year or so, just do widefield imaging with a decent APO refractor down to magnitude 12 and look for anything with a high proper motion year to year.

*If you want to see one far from earth, just look to the center of the crab nebula for this star:
[link to www.astro.caltech.edu]
You can probably recognize it by the pattern of surrounding stars in this amateur image:
[link to www.astrosurf.com]
It's there, near the center.

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Not everyone has a Hubble in their backyard!

See my calculations above. You wouldn't need a hubble in your backyard to see the very neutron star you mentioned if it were in fact in a 24,000 year orbit of the sun as claimed in this thread. In fact, you wouldn't need any telescope at all, just your eyes and a dark sky.

Don't get pissed just answer with a specific how to, if you can do so.

The "how" would be to look and hope one is there within thousands of astronomical units instead of thousands of light years.

That way your method for doing so may be tested by any person with a NORMAL telescope. Simply by going outside and attempting to view one in a known location by your method.
You want to see one far from earth? Well it being visible is usually contingent on it being close to the solar system. If it's within a light year or so, just do widefield imaging with a decent APO refractor down to magnitude 12 and look for anything with a high proper motion year to year.

*If you want to see one far from earth, just look to the center of the crab nebula for this star:
[link to www.astro.caltech.edu]
You can probably recognize it by the pattern of surrounding stars in this amateur image:
[link to www.astrosurf.com]
It's there, near the center.
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It's not essential to use a widefield refractor for that purpose. Any relatively fast scope will do.
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Holy shit! It took only 4 minutes for Astronut to "find" this thread and type up a response to it.
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and he's still posting his shi*t!!!

tooo much ..
You can always tell a SHILL by how many posts they make on things they don't believe in.
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err...going back to the first post, core heating, plate migration....aren't those tidal effects?

Before continental plates started drifting around, I think you just might notice movement in something a little lighter, closer to the surface, and more fluid, that responds quite well to the tidal forces of the Sun and Moon.............the sea!
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Lets not forget people:


dere's gold in dem dere dooms!

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I believe this ^^ is the most accurate statement in the entire thread.

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The book/program "The Great Year" says that the Sun has a binary companion -- rubbish
The Great Year is a term used to describe the 25,000 year cycle of precession of the Earth's axis of rotation around the pole of its orbit. This term has been used for quite a long time, but doesn't in any way refer to WHY the precession occurs (when the term was invented, it was thought to be a 'natural' motion of the stars, which occurred in additional to their daily motion around the sky).
Precession occurs because of the gravitational effects of the Moon and Sun on our equatorial bulge. This is referred to as the 'lunisolar' theory, and is the ONLY accepted theory of precession.
However, there is an alternative theory, based on an 1894 book which was itself based on ancient Oriental philosophies of the motions of heavenly bodies, which suggests that precession is caused, at least in part, by the Sun orbiting around some unknown stellar companion, with an orbital period of 24,000 years. This is the theory that you must have heard discussed in the program. I was, frankly, quite surprised and disturbed to hear that this program was based on such nonsense. There are small discrepancies in the lunisolar theory calculations, which is quite common in any application of theory of any sort to the real world, but the idea that some unknown companion of the Sun can be in any way responsible for these discrepancies is absolute rubbish. If there were such a star, and it was close enough so that it could have a 24,000 year orbital period, it would produce many other, very noticeable effects on our Solar System, particularly on comets and the outer planets, and there is absolutely no way that this can be true; and in any event, those effects would NOT be related to precession, which involves the axis of rotation of the Earth, and not its orbital motion.
Frankly, this reminds me of some very similar rubbish, about 30 years ago, about a nonexistent star dubbed Nemesis, which supposedly had a 26-million year orbital period, and was responsible for periodic waves of comets being thrown into the Solar System, destroying everything in their path. At least in that case, it was possible to show that the theories involved were not only ridiculous, but also that the mathematics involved was completely faulty, without having to invest additional time in a fruitless search for the nonexistent object.


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Um, sorry but that "rubbish" is getting a new looking into...by NASA no less!
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Ah yes, NASA - a name you can trust LOL.


Jeez! Make up your mind will ya? Ya can't have it both ways. First you're debunking the idea of Nemesis and when I point out that the scientific community is actually looking into the possibility you decide to debunk NASA.
And I'm not saying NASA is to be totally trusted but they are obviously investing time and money into checking out "something" so you can't dismiss the notion of Nemesis or something else that we have yet to discover.
You should look into Sickscents threads here on GLP. Very intriguing stuff and isn't complete "rubbish" like this thread.
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I posted the original comment, and the second comment was humor. The idea is, even on a simple level, if this thing had a 25,000 year (or whatever) orbit, all we would have to do is look back along the timeline to see what, if anything, had happened before. Nothing happened; end of story.
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Holy shit! It took only 4 minutes for Astronut to "find" this thread and type up a response to it.

Now, I'm really fucking scared regarding the existance of this supermassive object.

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agreed, his shillery is a verification of truth.
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Total bullshit. There is no appearance of a star with that magnitude in the heavens. Maybe in a billion years, but not now. All you have to do is look up and see for yourself


BTW, the approaching nuetron star does not emit light, and therefore is not visible to the naked eye. It does emit radiation and has a substantial gravitational force. It's affecting the entire solar system. It turns out our sun is a variable star (not stable) and is in a binary system with the neutron star.

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Incorrect. Neutron stars emit a fair amount of visible light. The Crab Nebula pulsar (neutron star) has been observed in the radio, visible, x-ray, and gamma ray regions. So have others. Neutron stars have a small surface area so appear faint. They have a surface temperature around 1 million degress Kelvin.
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Do you play ORBITER Astronut??? Your name is familiar, I seem to remember you posting on the official boards (before Orbiter-forum took over as their forums)
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A neutron star? Those things are pretty damn massive, with a minimum mass greater than the sun itself! If one of those were anywhere near the inner solar system, we'd see some hella huge gravitational perturbations on the positions of the outer planets. Things would be seriously out of whack with their predicted locations, especially with lower mass bodies such as asteroids. I don't know who these jokers think they are, but their claim doesn't fit the observational evidence.
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Lol. All we need to know is that Benjamin Baruch is associated with this:

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Is there an article to read instead of a broadcast?
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Not that I know of. Sorry.
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Real astrophysicists publish papers with documented evidence.

They don't create videos to publish their theories and findings.
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Holy shit! It took only 4 minutes for Astronut to "find" this thread and type up a response to it.

Now, I'm really fucking scared regarding the existance of this supermassive object.

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agreed, his shillery is a verification of truth.
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Don't worry, the pentagon must be closed now. He's gone for the day.





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