As most know, the Earth is approaching the plain of the ecliptic of our galaxy. The Earth will pass through a point on this plain estimated to be 12-21-12ish.
Did you intend to use the homonym for 'plain'....'plane'??
Either way, this is rubbish. Nothing to worry about, and certainly not worth discussion, since it is ... utterly without merit.
Our Solar System is no where near any imagined 'plane of the Galaxy'....there really isn't anything remotely measurable, like that, within our current technology.
This is the equivalent to being on a boat, in rough seas, and trying to determine what the actual sea level is, in relation to the land masses that we can only see in the far-off distance.
Our entire Solar System is moving, along with the rest of our local group, all in various ways and on various paths. AND NOT THAT FAST, relative to the immense sizes and distances at work here.
200,000 MPH (or any figure you use, that is relative to Earth's surface as a way to imagine our motion) sounds fast, but on astronomical scales it is glacier-like....slower even!
It takes the Solar System hundreds of millions of years to finish one complete 'orbit' about the Galactic center, and even that is nebulous and not exact.
Really....this sort of "The Sky Is Falling" bunk is quickly shown for what it is when science is taken into account.
Have a nice day....
OH, BTW....the "plane of the ecliptic" that keeps getting mentioned?? It's going to happen in three months. And again, 12/21/10, and 12/21/11....etc. It is an astronomical observation only...look it up.
OH...second BTW....that "vast sea of oil" that the Earth's crust is 'floating' on...? Wouldn't even qualify as a good Science Fiction premise, sorry.
Can't imagine who made that 'theory' up.....



