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This past summer, during my internship at MIT's Lincoln Lab, Dava Newman (Deputy Administrator of NASA) came to give a talk about NASA's journey to mars. At the
by jd3 10y ago
This past summer, during my internship at MIT's Lincoln Lab, Dava Newman (Deputy Administrator of NASA) came to give a talk about NASA's journey to mars. At the end of the talk (during the Q&A), some greybeard conspiracy nut in the back of the room asked her about the existence of Nibiru; suffice it to say, she had no idea what he was talking about..
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- gchokov 10y agoRight on :) Every time when there's discovery for yet another distant object from the sun, there's some speculation that pointing to Nibiru (where does this name come from)?
- mhurron 10y ago> Nibiru (where does this name come from)? It's Babylonian, which was then co-opted by conspiracy theorists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibiru_(Babylonian_astronomy) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibiru_(Babylonian_astronomy)
- arca_vorago 10y agoActually it's Akkadian, here is some better reading than wikipedia. As for your comment about conspiracists, I have a feeling thou dost protest too much, if you catch my drift. http://www.michaelsheiser.com/nibirupage.htm http://www.michaelsheiser.com/nibirupage.htm
- mhurron 10y agoYa, I believe in the cataclysm theory and need to hid that on HN, or I'm not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibiru_cataclysm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibiru_cataclysm "Although the name "Nibiru" is derived from the works of the ancient astronaut writer Zecharia Sitchin and his interpretations of Babylonian and Sumerian mythology, he denied any connection between his work and various claims of a coming apocalypse."
- soufron 10y agoReally? At MIT? Lunatics are everywhere (pun intended).
- jd3 10y agoYep! Lincoln is MIT's DoD/FFRDC lab in Lexington, if that helps. There are people who have been there since the SAGE program... I lived with one of the guys who currently works in the director's office for a couple of weeks before I could move into the campus dorms; he would tell me about how these life-timer researchers literally die at their desks.
- soufron 10y agoReally? At MIT? Lunatics are everywhere (pun intended).
- MrZongle2 10y ago"...some greybeard conspiracy nut in the back of the room asked her about the existence of Nibiru..." I guess he couldn't make it to Guadalajara to ask Musk.