The periodicity of sudden minor extinction events is 26 million years give or take. The 10,000 year orbit of the proposed planet could be a catalyst for just such a cycle. It is outside the Kuiper Belt of large asteroids and planetoids and a conjunction of it's rotation alongside those of the 4 big gas giants in the solar system might be a key in dislodging large objects from the belt. It also might well pull in passing objects and add them to the belt where they then become new factors in the overall equation. At it's aphelion, or farthest point from the sun it is more than 1% of a light year away. That's a huge arc of space in which to randomly encounter new objects and guide them further into the sun's gravity well. It's also a tug towards the ecliptic, or plane in which the planets rotate. To give an idea of what type of actor the proposed planet is in the solar system: it has made approximately 450,000 rotations of the sun since the solar system was born. The Earth has made 450,000 rotations of the sun since the year 783.
I went with snowstorm and punter...Banging Nikki Minaj in the backdoor should have been an option right below Truffle (doodoo) Butter.
National Pride is probably number one. Meet a foreign traveler and they can tell you laundry list of defects about the good ol' USA (all the while hip-ing you to the superior intellectual contributions of THEIR country.) And we Americans don't feel ashamed or put out at all..... we just shrug put shoulders and move on. Sent from my SGH-M919 using Tapatalk
