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Some conspiracy theories are dangerous – like anti-vaxxers or the 5G coronavirus lunatics – but others are just plain dumb.
Falling into the latter category is the Nibiru or ‘Planet X’ conspiracy. It’s been circulating online since 1995 and to our amazement is still being talked about now, in the middle of a very real global threat.
For the uninitiated, the idea is a mysterious planet is going to appear out of nowhere and smack directly into Earth, killing all of us in the process.
A video proclaiming a new date (there have been several, as you might have guessed) of 19th June for the impending Nibiru cataclysm has been posted to YouTube.
The video clocks in at an impressive one hour and two minutes in length. All of which is devoted to telling the viewer how the Earth will be brought to its knees by Planet X alongside scary b-roll footage scraped from news reports.
The video was posted on a YouTube channel called Mr William which appears to be devoted exclusively to the Nibiru conspiracy theory. A cursory glance shows the channel has uploaded seven videos on the subject in the last 24 hours alone.
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Here's why you shouldn't be worried about Nibiru – ever
Nibiru (or Planet X) was widely predicted to hit our planet in December 2016, and before that in April 2016, and December 2015.
Are you seeing a pattern here?
Prior to that, it was predicted to smash into our planet to coincide with the Mayan apocalypse in 2012 – and before that, Nancy Lieder, an American website writer who claimed to have an alien implant in her brain, predicted it would destroy the world in 2003.
Nibiru does not exist. It has never been seen on any telescope, and no credible scientist has ever confirmed its existence.
NASA has thoroughly debunked the Nibiru myth via its Beyond 2012 page, saying, ‘Nibiru and other stories about wayward planets are an Internet hoax. There is no factual basis for these claims.
‘If Nibiru or Planet X were real and headed for an encounter with the Earth, astronomers would have been tracking it for at least the past decade, and it would be visible by now to the naked eye.’
Soviet-born American writer Zecharia Sitchin first wrote about Nibiru in his hit 1976 book ‘The 12th Planet’ where he claimed it was inhabited by a race of ‘ancient aliens’ – the Annunaki – who had created the human race.
Sitchin’s work remains in print and has a devoted following around the world.
Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual says, ‘Zecharia Sitchin claims that Nibiru collided with a planet called Tiamat that was situated between Mars and Jupiter. The result was the creation of the asteroid belt and planet Earth.’
‘Nibiru is populated by the Anunnaki, an advanced humanoid race, who visited Earth thousands of years to mine gold in Africa. As an outcome of needing workers to carry out these mining operations they used genetics to create Homo Sapiens.’
‘The popularity of these type of ideas makes it certain that every new discovery by our spaceships will be be minutely studied for any evidence of Nibiru, or any other similar body that might be populated by extraterrestrials.’
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