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I have a love/hate relationship with YouTube. YouTube has great information but it also has a great deal of bad information.
Nibiru Planet of Doom
I first became aware of Nibiru from a man on face book who claimed to be a prophet. He said Nibiru was the size of Earth and it periodically wandered thru our solar system every 3000 years. This time it was on a collision course with Earth. He claimed NASA had confirmed that Nibiru would collide with Earth but was now lying to us. Later he claimed he alone knew where safe places where. Then he claimed it was months away from hitting Earth.
He quit his job and sold his possessions. He packed up his wife and two small children plus supplies to survive Nibiru. He then headed off into the sunset to head for a safe place God had told him about and waited for the destruction to begin. Nibiru never came and months after this prophet had predicted doom, he again resurfaced on Facebook but had lost all his following and his wife divorced him.
[video=youtube;HQqn-zZzbLw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQqn-zZzbLw[/video]
Comet Elenin- extinction level event
Alexander Retrov, retired high school music teacher with no science in his background predicted comet Elenin would bring one mile high tsunamis to much of the earth's coastal regions. He also predicted earthquakes greater then Richter scale 14 would cause widespread destruction. He also claimed NASA was being deceptive about this comet. He made a living pedaling fear which would never come. Comet Elenin came and went with out incident. No tidal waves, no major earthquakes and the Comet never came close to Earth, as NASA had said.
More YouTube quackery
Was this the end of YouTube quackery? Unfortunately, no. It was just the begining. Here is a small list of other YouTube doomsday predictions.
1) Mayan calendar ends in December 2012 and that means the world will end.
2) Magnetic poles will reverse.
3) Planetary alignments will cause earthquakes.
4) Galactic alignments will caused earthquakes and tidal waves in 2012.
Nibiru Planet of Doom
I first became aware of Nibiru from a man on face book who claimed to be a prophet. He said Nibiru was the size of Earth and it periodically wandered thru our solar system every 3000 years. This time it was on a collision course with Earth. He claimed NASA had confirmed that Nibiru would collide with Earth but was now lying to us. Later he claimed he alone knew where safe places where. Then he claimed it was months away from hitting Earth.
He quit his job and sold his possessions. He packed up his wife and two small children plus supplies to survive Nibiru. He then headed off into the sunset to head for a safe place God had told him about and waited for the destruction to begin. Nibiru never came and months after this prophet had predicted doom, he again resurfaced on Facebook but had lost all his following and his wife divorced him.
[video=youtube;HQqn-zZzbLw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQqn-zZzbLw[/video]
Comet Elenin- extinction level event
Alexander Retrov, retired high school music teacher with no science in his background predicted comet Elenin would bring one mile high tsunamis to much of the earth's coastal regions. He also predicted earthquakes greater then Richter scale 14 would cause widespread destruction. He also claimed NASA was being deceptive about this comet. He made a living pedaling fear which would never come. Comet Elenin came and went with out incident. No tidal waves, no major earthquakes and the Comet never came close to Earth, as NASA had said.
More YouTube quackery
Was this the end of YouTube quackery? Unfortunately, no. It was just the begining. Here is a small list of other YouTube doomsday predictions.
1) Mayan calendar ends in December 2012 and that means the world will end.
2) Magnetic poles will reverse.
3) Planetary alignments will cause earthquakes.
4) Galactic alignments will caused earthquakes and tidal waves in 2012.
