This is the one where he is being rude, talking about "Thanks for a good laugh"

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I understand that you said nibiru is a hoax but why on this website http://www.detailshere.com/niburu.htm they have live picture of nibiru to the right of the sunrise can you answer that?

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The website you sent me is pretty funny. For example, the statement that the Earth's axis had tilted and the Sun had shifted from its correct place in the sky; anyone with eyes can see this is not true. Or the comment about building observatories at the south pole to observe Nibiru. The is no configuration possible that could be seen only from the south pole and not from the whole southern hemisphere. And they ask why no observatories have been built near the north pole. The last time I looked, the north pole was in the middle of the Arctic Sea, not exactly the sort of place to build a telescope. I can't believe that anyone would take this seriously. But you asked specifically about the pictures of sunset (not sunrise; look at the times of the frames). The bright point just off the Sun's disk looks to me like lens flare, which is common when pointing a camera directly at the Sun. The same lens flare makes the disk of the Sun seem to extend below the horizon in these pictures. In any case it doesn't take a rocket scientist to be sure this is not the image of a planet. The apparent surface brightness of the image is similar to that of the Sun, which would require (if it were a real object) that it be a very nearby self-luminous star not a planet. Anyway, thanks for a good laugh.

David Morrison
NAI Senior Scientist
13 March 2008

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