Armageddon via imaginary planet has been pushed back
In September, to much fame, a man who claimed to have studied astronomy in Kentucky and deciphered the Book of Revelations predicted an ominous sign would appear on Sept. 23 and foretell the world’s end.
“It’s a very biblically significant, numerologically significant number,” David Meade said then. A series of catastrophic events would follow the omen, he claimed, culminating in the appearance of a mysterious planet called Nibiru and the end of “the world as we know it.”
Meade’s claim sold a lot of tabloids and YouTube ads. When Sept 23 passed with no omens or calamities, Meade revised his very numerologically significant date to Oct. 15, which also came and went uneventfully.
You might think two consecutive misfires would quash the Nibiru theory. Instead, another doomsday theorist is quoted as warning that the end of all things will come, not on Sept. 23 or Oct. 15, but Nov. 19, when Nibiru is supposed to set off cataclysmic earthquakes.
“November 19th will see earthquake Armageddon across huge swaths of the planet,” the Daily Express tabloid wrote in representative tones. The paper cited as evidence unnamed “astronomers and seismologists” — and an illegible picture of the Earth, covered like pincushion in quake markers.
Try to pin down the “astronomers and seismologists” who supposedly support this theory, and you end up at PlanetXNews.com, a conspiracy website that Meade sometimes writes for.
The quake-pocalypse theory comes to us courtesy of a different author, Terral Croft. He writes that seismic activity has been increasing around the world as the massive “Black Star” (Nibiru has many names) wheels around the edge of the solar system, upsetting the planets within.
Meade predicted Nibiru would approach Earth, maybe even collide with it. But this latest version of the theory claims Earth will simply line up with the sun and “black star” on Nov. 19, somehow triggering a “backside-alignment quake event.”
Nibiru, as far as science can tell us, doesn’t exist.
“It would be bright. It would be easily visible to the naked eye,” a NASA scientist wrote several years ago. “It would already be perturbing the orbits of Mars and Earth.”