http://www.metafilter.com/tags/rupert Posts tagged with 'rupert' at MetaFilter. Mon, 07 Oct 2002 11:11:28 -0800 Mon, 07 Oct 2002 11:11:28 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/20611/ Most of us were expecting that astronomers would discover a tenth planet and name it <a href="http://carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/GREECE/perseph.html" title="Persephone was the daughter of Demeter, goddess of the earth and harvest. Demeter was responsible for the growth of plants and crops, and Persephone helped her. ">Persephone</a>. A mostly harmless author preferred <a href="http://k76.ryd.student.liu.se/~lindahl/other/guide/hg-5-02.html" title="The planet was named Persephone, but rapidly nicknamed Rupert after some astronomer's parrot -- there was some tediously heart-warming story attached to this -- and that was all very wonderful and lovely.">Rupert.</a> One clique of New Age doomsayers claims that it is <a href="http://badastronomy.com/bad/misc/planetx/index.html" title="Zecharia Sitchin, the world renowned scholar, author of The 12th Planet and archaeologist, states absolutely & openly When Planet X returns it would remove 90% of currently unsatisfactory human beings from the planet!">"Nibiru," or "Planet X,"</a>, which will come in 2003 to wreak havoc and usher in a new era under (I kid you not) our new alien overlords. Well, hang it all. <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/10/1003_021007_quaoar.html" title="Can you tell I culled my link from Google News? Do you really hate me now? I'm sorry.">Planet #9.5 has been discovered, and they called it "Quaoar."</a> And I think Pluto is pissed. tag:metafilter.com,2002:site.20611 Mon, 07 Oct 2002 11:11:28 -0800 conspiracy planets pluto rupert space brownpau