Giant Stealth Planet May Explain Rain of Comets from Solar System's Edge:

http://www.space.com/9612-giant-stealth-planet-explain-rain-comets-solar-system-edge.html





Did anyone ever try to explain why the mass extinctions come on a specifically timed interval? Its an extinction cycle that happens every set amount of time.

Is there an explanation for this?

This post was edited by Torm1 on Feb 18 2011 12:20am

You never fail to connect ANY topic to your retarded end of the world trolling, do you?

165 million years
20 million years
115 million years
75 million years

Yep...sure looks like a "specifically timed interval" to me.

Mass Extinction Cycle of 27 million years (World News)
http://wn.com/mass_extinction_cycle_of_27_million_years

These are mass extinctions of mostly land animals. They are timed accurately, so therefore something is happening every set amount of time.

Passage through the Galactic Ecliptic? Thats the only thing that makes sense.


This post was edited by Torm1 on Feb 18 2011 10:18am

Like everything else you post, right?

In the 1980s scientists believed that Earth’s regular extinctions could be the result of a distant dark twin of the Sun, called Nemesis.

The theory was that Nemesis crashed through the Oort cloud every 27 million years and sent a shower of comets in our direction.

The Oort cloud is a vast belt of dust and ice that is believed to lie around one light year from the Sun and is the origin of many of the comets that pass through our solar system.

But now scientists claim that the regularity of the mass extinctions actually disproves the Nemesis theory because its orbit would have changed over time as it interacted with other stars.

‘Fossil data, which motivated the idea of Nemesis, now militate against it,’ say the researchers.’

The last extinction event, 11 million years ago, saw 10 per cent of the Earth’s inhabitants wiped out.

This means there is around 16million years until the next event takes place, although the graph shows that it occasionally the event takes place up to 10 million years early.

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1294372/Life-Earth-wiped-27-million-years.html

Your "theory" is probably the worst "end of the world" theory I've read... should have stuck with the Mayan calender approach... has more validity

new research shows that comets are not to blame for mass extinctions. read it in both astronomy monthly and science illustrated. instead these were likely caused by meteros which are completely different.

and if there was a star coming through the oort cloud at us we would definately know it.

edit: lol at the incorrect scale of planet distances. not even a close representation.

This post was edited by juliusjuice on Feb 20 2011 11:34am

The distance scale is logarithmic.

ah noticed the exponential distance between each marker.

this link came up under arcticle. its about how there is no companion.

http://www.space.com/8779-sun-rumored-hidden-companion-exist.html

"If you see something with a very regular cycle that?s like 10 million or 100 million years, you tend to think of things astronomical," said physicist Adrian Melott of the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kan. -hey thats where i am.

This post was edited by juliusjuice on Feb 20 2011 12:46pm