Is the Betelgeuse ‘two suns’ supernova story a cover-up for Planet X collision?

Ok, so there was this recent news blurb about the star Betelgeuse going supernova, and that it could result in an explosion so magnificent, that it would appear in our sky as bright as a second sun, causing perpetual daylight for a month as early as 2012. The article says it won’t have any ill-effects on us, still, I found it pretty creepy and was a bit weirded out that the time-table for it happening was the infamous ’2012′.

Apparently, I’m not the only one.

It seems, there’s been this long-time conspiracy theory that there’s a huge planet called Nibiru – or Planet X – looming outside our solar system approximately 7 billion miles away, and that it’s headed right at us. Well, believers of this theory are now saying that this whole ‘two suns’ deal is just a cover-up for the impending collision with Planet X. They say that the Government’s planted the Betelgeuse story, so that when Planet X approaches, everyone will just think it’s the Betelgeuse supernova.

I have to say, I was more than a bit unsettled when I read about this gloomy prospect. According to these theorists, only the rich will survive by scurrying underground in protective bunkers – which are now furiously being constructed somewhere out west – and the rest of us poor shnooks will be kissing our asses good-bye.

Yep…I was pretty freaked.

Of course, when I read more about it, I became slightly less panicky.

You see, there’s absolutely not one credible shred of proof that this is actually happening. In fact, the source of this incredible story is this whackadoodle named Nancy Lieder – a Wisconsin woman who claims that as a girl she was contacted by gray extraterrestrials called Zetas, who implanted a communications device in her brain.

Later on, an author named Zecharia Sitchin wrote a book about it called ‘End Of Days’ and now there’s a contingent out there that are totally sure we’re all about to die a horrific death come 2012.

The whole Nibiru tale reads like bad science fiction. Sicthin writes that aliens from Nbiru visited ancient Sumeria and created the human race by tampering with the genetic structure of primates in order to enslave us for the purposes of mining for gold. He claims that this all documented in Sumerian text.

Jeebus…makes Scientology sounds downright sane.

So what about this Betelguese supernova? Is it a cover-up or what? Well, it turns out that the original article which emanated from news.com.au, was a tad overstated. Scientists are now saying that most probably this won’t be happening in our lifetime, and when it does, it won’t appear as bright as the sun, more likely it will be about as visible as the moon. Moreover, the whole ’2012′ speculation was emphasized by the reporter and not the actual scientist interviewed.

Smells like someone trying to make a buck to me.

Just like Y2k and a million other doomsday scenarios, people like Sitchin and the author of the supernova article play on people’s innate pussy-fication to sell their bunk. As far as I’m concerned, that mentality is more indicative of the end of the days then any mythical planet hanging out in space, ready to unleash a can of whoop-ass on poor little earth.