[MareikuraOAroha]

I just wanted to know who here agrees with it and why

[keenu]

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I just wanted to know who here agrees with it and why

I do because it makes more sense (to me) than any other theory. It answers almost all questions and seems quite logical and possible based on the ancient texts and so forth. I have read extensively (thousands and more books) and I like this theory. Our current UFO and alien experiences fit like a glove onto this theory. I love his books and I wish he would write one about "newer" times...jesus etc.

[jaylemurph]

I don't.

Sitchin has been proven to -- if not out and lie about his translations, then be liberal enough with the translations that no-one with serious training in ancient languages credit them.
The existence of a larger-than-Jupiter size planet in an eccentric orbit in this solar system would disprove literally everything we currently know about gravity.
The putative biology of such a planet is at best extremely questionable.

--Jaylemurph

[Moon Princess]

What's the sitchens theory? I've never heard of it. Sorry for being so naive. ^^;;

[crouton]

I've never heard of him or his theory either.

[MissMelsWell]

His full name is Zecharia Sitchin... I've heard enough interviews with him on the radio to allow me to come to the conclusion that he's a kook.

Here's his Web site and you can make up your own mind (and he really needs to get off the front page templates, dang that site is ugly. haha): http://www.sitchin.com/

[Raptor]

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According to Sitchin's interpretation of Sumerian cosmology, there is a hypothetical planet which follows a long, elliptical orbit, reaching the inner solar system roughly every 3,600 years, called Nibiru (the planet associated with Marduk in Babylonian cosmology). Nibiru collided catastrophically with Tiamat, a hypothetical planet that was between Mars and Jupiter, forming the planet Earth, the asteroid belt, and comets.

According to Sitchin, Nibiru was the home of a technologically advanced human-like extraterrestrial race, called the Anunnaki in Sumerian myth who were called the Nephilim in the Bible. He claims that they first arrived on Earth probably 450,000 years ago, looking for minerals, especially gold, which they found and mined in Africa. These "gods" of the Anunnaki were the rank and file workers of the colonial expedition to earth from planet Nibiru. Sitchin believes that the Anunnaki genetically engineered Homo sapiens as slave animals to work in their gold mines by crossing extraterrestrial genes with those of Homo erectus.

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No, I don't believe his theory at all. It's completely idiotic.

[MissMelsWell]

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No, I don't believe his theory at all. It's completely idiotic.

I know, I personally think he's as kooky as Ron L. Hubbard.

[TheHerb420]

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The existence of a larger-than-Jupiter size planet in an eccentric orbit in this solar system would disprove literally everything we currently know about gravity.

--Jaylemurph

Going more in-depth.

Assuming that Nibiru could support life, it has to be solid. Coupling that with it's larger than Jupiter size, it couldn't even exist in the Oort cloud without altering the trajectory of Earth, so claiming that such a body could reach the inner solar-system without completely ripping Earth apart is beyond me.

Also, all I've seen Sitchen successfully do is get rich off of people uneducated in the required fields of study to understand how ludicrous the idea is.

[MareikuraOAroha]

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Going more in-depth.

Assuming that Nibiru could support life, it has to be solid. Coupling that with it's larger than Jupiter size, it couldn't even exist in the Oort cloud without altering the trajectory of Earth, so claiming that such a body could reach the inner solar-system without completely ripping Earth apart is beyond me.

Also, all I've seen Sitchen successfully do is get rich off of people uneducated in the required fields of study to understand how ludicrous the idea is.

Sitchen and the Sumerians actually state that is a dwarf planet I personally belive and support this theory as when you read a lot of what he has to saya nd what the ancients say it just adds up to me and I believe that there is enough facts to support it unlike religion(no offence) that goes off what people who can heal say and then everyone take it as though they are people who have been put here by god(in most cases)...I just think there is good hard facts to support his theory but thanks for you guys opinions on this and why because it gives a different out look to it and gives both sides of views

[MareikuraOAroha]

I just thought I would also add that another reason why I agree with what he has said that the sumerians have said is because they talk of a giant alien race who were humanoid and today scientists and archaeologists are finding giant skeletons so how could these people have known otherwise and there is must more evidence today to suggest it is all factual

[Mesobaite]

I am not sure if what Sitchen proports is true. But I know one thing "...where there's smoke, there's fire...". HIs theories do have answers for many questions. Whether these are the right answers only time will tell.

I certainly never disregarrd anyone's claims based on evidence like this:

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His full name is Zecharia Sitchin... I've heard enough interviews with him on the radio to allow me to come to the conclusion that he's a kook.

When people are labeled like this it just makes them more credible to me sometimes.

[Essan]

Aren't theories supposed to have some supporting evidence? Rather than being entirely made up? (Sitchin interprets Sumerian texts completely differently to everyone else. Every wondered why?)

Might as well ask who supports George Lucas' theory.....

[odas]

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I just thought I would also add that another reason why I agree with what he has said that the sumerians have said is because they talk of a giant alien race who were humanoid and today scientists and archaeologists are finding giant skeletons so how could these people have known otherwise and there is must more evidence today to suggest it is all factual

The problem to agree with it is he does not have the required proof.

On the other hand science is getting like the Church in the middle ages. Anything that is not with accordance with the scinecetists is labled wrong and blasphemic.

I like Stichin. If he is right, I do not know. But what I am sure of is that there is more to our history than the dinosaur fossils. We are not alone in this Space, nor did we invent Life.

Our being is proof that nothing is imposible other than our mind to recognize it.

[Mad Hatter]

If humans were made from sand and dust, wouldn't we disintegrate from water?

I'm sorry, but thousands of reports over the span of a millennium is very surprising. UFO reports surface everyday. Aliens exist. Whether Sitchen's theories are correct for false I do not know, but all I know is that they are more accurate then some theories....