Amazing how stupid some people are.

I cannot take Blogger Brussell Sprout very seriously. What's more can a planet stay hidden in our solar system?

You know the one, in light, inaccessible hid from our eyes.

It's probably on a need to know basis.

When?????

sickly child wrote:

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When?????

 sickly, you cant have missed the numerous extinction comets and meteor sites all over the globe!

 

What about the nature of life itself?

 

The inexhaustible nature and total randomness of physics that is currently being discovered.

 

and as Worcester points out...

 

 

ian wrote:

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sickly child wrote:

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When?????

 sickly, you cant have missed the numerous extinction comets and meteor sites all over the globe!

 

What about the nature of life itself?

 

The inexhaustible nature and total randomness of physics that is currently being discovered.

 

and as Worcester points out...

 

 

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Ian, I was thinking more of a hidden object that is a size of a planet that has never been seen before but is known to exist by a few who have some kind of magical knowledge. Please inform me of any such event. :)  

My point is, is that of course there could be. There can be lots of things but without good evidence then it is meaningless to assert these things. The idea that those with arcane magical knowledge know they exist without a shred of credible evidence makes it absurd.

Depends how one reads ancient texts and interprets ancient monuments and codes.

Comets and meteors for example and other bodies may have appeared in our past on a cycle but not reappeared again or yet. Based on this, it is possible that some of the ideas have been passed down in folk law and religion/'magic'.

Some comets are predictable, and they have been mapped and predicted to precision but in the main they are unknown to modern data and therefore remain unpredictable and could appear or reappear at any time. Some could have lengthy orbital periods of thousands of years which means their past appearances and returns cannot be predicted but may have been known to early civilisations and passed on for some time. The time of early civilisation is being pushed back all the time, so its possible that some bodies or phenomena may have only ever passed through the Solar System once or not at all.

As we definitely know that ancient civilisations spent a whole bunch of time watching and mapping the sky it is possible that they noted cycles and that knowledge became established in those society's.

we know for example that around 3000 plus years ago the Babylonians kept fairly detailed recordings of Venus and the alignment of stars combined with weather and earthly conjunctions. They went on to hypothesise about other 'planets' long before they could be seen and a little later the orbits of planets and other bodies began to be written down and predicted. There must have been some extremely clever people during the dawn of civilisation. Of course, before the written word was used its impossible to know what was known by when and whom but it does give a flavour of what may have bee known by a few and passed down 'like Chinese whispers'.

Yep and it is also possible that folklore is a load of hooey and superstitious nonsense, as stated most things ARE possible but evidence is required if we are to take things seriously. I have lost count of the number of times the end of the world has been predicted by people who have interpreted ancient texts with access to ancient magical lore. Every single time they have been wrong, wrong, wrong to the extent of tedium. Why should the next nutbars be true? All evidence so far shows that they are 100% incorrect, no reason to think that the next few hundred will be right too. Produce any kind of credible evidence supported by rational and scientific enquiry and I will begin to worry. :) Until then sleep easy I will.