Doomsday Asteroid
One of the most popular recent rumors in fringe scientific circles is that the world is going to end this year when a mysterious planet called Nibiru collides with Earth—some estimates point to October, while others say a preliminary event could happen as early as next week. Not really—there’s no proof that Nibiru even exists, and while many people have predicted Nibiru collisions in the past not one of them has actually happened. Hysteria about Nibiru goes all the way back to 1976, when author Zecharia Sitchin theorized in his book The 12th Planet that ancient astronauts from the undiscovered planet came down to Earth to mine gold in Africa, and that they used humans as slaves. The most famous conspiracy theorist is Nancy Lieder, who claims she has the ability to receive alien messages through an implant in her brain. This theory by New Age and some UFO researchers, mainly Zacharia Stichin, that aliens created humans out of a common ancestor of apes to be slaves, is identica...