Hilarious video!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYtriBMsXy4

Saw it posted in Political Videos and it's full of so much science fail that I had to post it here.

Synopsis:
Mike, an online silver dealer, uses a JPL animation/model to prove that comet C/2010 X1 (http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iauc/09100/09189.html) is really a brown dwarf star responsible for recent earthquakes and will "flip the Earth" when it passes us within .25 AU.

There's one part where I laughed so hard, I actually started choking.

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1. Also, the discoverer of the comet addresses some of the nonsense in the video here:

http://spaceobs.org/en/2011/03/07/vliyanie-planet-gigantov-na-orbitu-komety-c2010-x1-elenin/comment-page-1/#comments

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2. I got an email about that this week

You mean it's not fer reals? Jolly, why would my friend send me and 412,561 other CC'd friends an email that wasn't completely true?

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3. I love Elenin's response to the issue:

If we replace my comet by dwarf star, we will see it on daylight! Brown dwarf of course is small star, but this is a star! It more largest than Jupiter.
Many people think what brown dwarf is so small and we can see it. This is true if it located in several light years, but if we move it in inner Solar System we will see this object without any aids. This is only crazy rumours.