[stephenb (Stephen)]

Marclau,

I appreciate and applaud your enthusiasm to research the subject, to form your own opinion, and to hopefully draw your own conclusion to this so-called 'Planet X'. I hope you will come to a very sensible conclusion. Based on your signature, I trust you will do this.

I've never commented on this theory anywhere on any forum before, and I have only had a medium knowledge of the subject, from what I have read and heard enough information to form the opinion, and it is this:

Any information which would come to light of the existence of a newly discovered planet, or planetoid or any type of object orbiting the Sun, would be of great scientific interest to the professional and amateur communities.

However, when a 'discovery' such as this has: (a) been perpetuated though the internet, (b) continually refuted by the scientific community, and finally (c) constantly associated by conspiracy theorists that is a ''government cover up" to keep the population calm, I immediately give it no credible cause whatsoever.

More broadly, my third point is the icing on the cake as far as I am concerned. I, personally do not believe in high-level government "cover-ups", the "Area 51's", "Apollo was a hoax", "this August, Mars will be as big as the Moon", "9-11 was a US-government-operation to rid the world of Jews/black people/Asians/white Caucasian males/midgets" and so forth, most of which are held by some delusional and paranoid U.S citizens (present company in IIS excepted). If a theory or topic has government conspiracy attached to it, it has lost all credibility for me.

Whilst I appreciate that civilisations such as the Mayans were a very clever and resourceful race, and like many ancient civilisations we should give them more credit that what we do for their knowledge of the night sky, we also can very easily misinterpret their writings, and sometimes form our own beliefs based on a series of (mis)interpretations.

I recall back to several TV programs in the 1970's and again in the 1980's which claimed that the world would end on specific dates based on the interpretations of prophesies of Nostradamus (hosted by John Waters, from memory). All those dates have come and gone and I am still here typing this post.

Marclau, you state this is a "new finding" but it has been circling the internet for years. I so not consider this a "new scientific finding" and I will be very blunt here. I think after you read your several books purchased from Amazon, you'll finally realise you've just wasted your money which could have been put to better use.

And yes Kev, I agree!