Crap! Maybe the Russians Were Right—Aliens Inbound

In the weekend papers, and I honestly cannot remember if it was Saturday’s “West Australian” or Sunday’s “Sunday Times”, there was a throw-away article about how some Russian newspaper knew how the world was going to end in 2012. Somehow they had worked out that there was a massive alien space ship in the outer reaches of our solar system. Somewhere out near Pluto.

This space ship is huge—so this Russian report said. It was 240 kilometers in diameter. That is some space ship. It makes the space ships imagined by George Lucas in Star Trek look almost puny. I doubt if even the Death Star was 240 kilometers in diameter.

So, as this Russian article goes, by sometime late in 2012 this space ship would arrive near Earth and was going to blast the planet with some electro-magnetic weapon that would kill off all our life support requirements (power, water, food, etc.,) and then once we had all died they would use the planet’s resources.

Okay. I read it. But I didn’t think too much about it. I think I might have told my son, but it was a joke.

But then today on Space.com there is the headline “Mysterious Planet-sized Object Spotted Near Mercury” !!!!! See the cutting above right and the headline below.

The article at Space.com, which the image above links to, provides a link that links over to a YouTube video that apparently shows a huge space ship parked alongside Mercury. The reason it can be seen is that it got caught by the reflective bounce of a coronal mass discharge from our Sun, otherwise it would not have been spotted.

No. I have not bothered to go to the YouTube link.

One problem is that the Russian newspaper article had the space ship out in the other direction on the very edge of our solar system near Pluto. This ‘sighing’ is in the wrong direction as Mercury is the other way; in towards the Sun.

I suppose it could be possible ‘they’ are coming from both directions?