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So, some friends of ours have learned about "Planet X" in school...

Gomez said:
Hey I have known about Planet X since I was a kid! The World Space Authority dispatched the P-1 interplanetary vessel to study the newly discovered Planet X back in 1965. Cold, calculating, and deadly, the inhabitants of Planet X were a duplicitous alien race located on a nearby celestial body, visually obscured be the enormous girth of Jupiter.

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These were a people who mined gold in great abundance, but lacked one key necessity: water. This scarcity prompted the race to attempt the colonization of a new planet, one with a great abundance of the resource they so desperately desired; they needed to conquer Earth! Secretly, the Xilians, as they were called, landed scouts and advance forces on the planet to pave the way for the next phase of their dastardly plan. The Earthlings were made to believe that this small, rocky planet was under the constant threat of King Ghidorah, and permission was requested to operate freely on Earth to procure Godzilla and Rodan. Only these colossal creatures could protect Planet X, the Controller reasoned, and in return for human cooperation, the Xilians promised the Earthlings a cure for all diseases.

As the nations of the Earth agreed to this proposition, the Xilians revealed that they had already arrived! Godzilla was lifted from the depths of Lake Myojin, and Rodan was pulled from the cliffs of Washigasawa by the aliens' flying saucers. The monsters were transported deep into space and were released on Planet X, where they fought and repelled King Ghidorah. It seemed as though a great service had been done for these interplanetary neighbors of humankind, and a fond farewell was bid as the astronauts returned to their home world with the medical cure-all. Humankind, however, was deceived!

The secret formula was in fact a device that foretold of the Xilians' plans for domination. These belligerent beings planned to utilize Godzilla, Rodan, and King Ghidorah, now under their control, to destroy human civilization, unless Earth agreed to become a possession of Planet X. As a plan of defense was being formulated, the invasion began! Luckily, there was one fatal flaw in the plans of these invaders. One of their own kind, who went by the name of Namikawa on Earth, had fallen in love with a human. She passed the secret vulnerability of her race to her lover shortly before her demise. It turned out that the Xilians' weakness was high amplitude sonic waves! This weakness was exploited when the high-pitched sound was broadcast throughout the region, and the Xilians writhed in pain. Simultaneously, a device called the a-cycle light ray was used to disintegrate the mind control over the monsters. With their plans for domination thwarted, the Xilians destroyed their flying saucers and took their own lives. King Ghidorah was soon defeated by Godzilla and Rodan, and the world was rescued from a terrible fate.

That's all in the history books. Right?

Wow, they ought to make a movie about that!
 

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Vigwyn the Unruly said:
OK, but in your original post, you said it was her parents that told you this. :)
Yes, at which point I went and talked to her.
Vigwyn said:
So, you got this second hand, from a 9-year old child, about something that happened when she was 7? I'll let you make your own judgment as to how well you can trust the accuracy of her report.
I didn't really say anything about when she was taught this, as I don't know that. And I believe that I already have made my own judgement about how well I can trust the accuracy of her report; and it sounds quite frankly like you're not letting me make my own judgement; you're pointedly trying to tell me what that judgement should be despite the fact that you don't know the first thing about this girl.
 

jgbrowning said:
I think we should nuke them from space: it's the only way to be sure.
Now now, if you're going to quote Aliens, at least get it right.

Hudson: Let's just bug out and call it even, OK? What are we talking about this for?
Ripley: I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Hudson: F---in' A...
Burke: Ho-ho-hold on one second. This installation has a substantial dollar value attached to it.
Ripley: They can *bill* me.
 

Thunderfoot said:
That's okay, my school was into free thinking theory and we were actually debating whether Pluto should be considered a planet.
There's all sorts of arguments about these semantical things - and as long as you have accurate data on the bodies in question: mass, rotation, etc., they don't really mean anything. I, personally, subscribe to the school of thought that says that school children should be taught that the Earth's "moon" isn't a moon at all, but another planet - Luna. But I'm not losing any sleep over it. :D
 

Joshua Randall said:
Now now, if you're going to quote Aliens, at least get it right.

Hudson: Let's just bug out and call it even, OK? What are we talking about this for?
Ripley: I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Hudson: F---in' A...
Burke: Ho-ho-hold on one second. This installation has a substantial dollar value attached to it.
Ripley: They can *bill* me.


Geek. :p
 

I'll provide a bit of anecdotal evidence becuase I know how well it fares on these boards...

Having just finished teaching 9th grade physical science students for the last three years, I can assure you that someone earlier in their education WAS teaching them that there was a Planet X. Whenever I went over the solar system, I taught the Sun, nine planets, asteroid belt, Kupier Belt and Oort Cloud as the basic structure and composition of our stellar neighborhood. Every year, a number of students in each of my four classes would ask me "What about Planet X?!"

I would proceed to mention Sedna and Quaror and point out the Kupier Belt again, but they would assure me that they were taught there was a Planet X beyond Pluto. I could never find out who it was exactly that was teaching them that, but I did find out who was teaching them that the moon landing was a hoax!
 

Joshua Dyal said:
...and it sounds quite frankly like you're not letting me make my own judgement; you're pointedly trying to tell me what that judgement should be despite the fact that you don't know the first thing about this girl.
I'm just having some fun with you. I apologize if I came off rude. I didn't mean to insult you.
 


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