what do people think of this...?

[Gert van Santen]

Andrew Robinson schreef:
> 2008/11/15 Gert van Santen <g.vansanten at chello.nl>:
>> Interesting. So according to you the earth will NOT pass through
>> the galactic plane in 2012?
> 
> That was my intuition from the fact that the milky way appears in the
> sky as a wobbly blob not a straight line. Googling 'earth distance
> galactic plane ecliptic' gave peer reviewed results from big name
> universities in the 65-90 light year range, as well as a large number
> of posts on reputable astronomy forums saying 'oh god not another 2012
> nutter who's seen that video asking about the plane of the ecliptic'.
> Throw in the fact that I've read up a fair bit on Gravity Probe B, and
> never seen mention of a 2012 event and I am pretty confident that
> unless we invent faster than light travel and move the whole planet 65
> light years we are not going to be pasing through anything exciting in
> 2012, with the possible exception of the Olympic budget limits.
> 
> - Andy_R

Thanks, Andy, that saves me a lot of money (I can cancel the 
order of a huge survival package ;-)

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