Posted on 02/28/2011 1:51:53 PM PST by the rifleman
It depends, actually. On technical stuff Wikipedia tends to be actually quite good -- for topics where I happen to have in-depth knowledge I've found it to be accurate.
a woman talking about her visions of catostrophic earth changes associated with the arrival of this cometThe only way a comet can cause catastrophic Earth changes is if it hits the Earth, and even then it would also have to be large enough to do serious damage. The recent (last couple of years) spate of cyanide-tailed comets were of little risk, because the tails are pretty insubstantial -- but we're seeing them from a distance so they appear nice and thick.
Thanks. Point 15 AU is about 13,950,000 miles, around 50 times the distance between Earth and Moon.
It’s point one five AU - not 15.
=8-)
Wonder how that astrophysicist would explain the ‘rolling tracks’ photographed on the surface of asteroids? Wonder if he believes comets have companion moonlets as Hale-Bopp was found to have?
Astrophysicist, astrobiologist ... getting late around here.
Yeah, but it did smoke California. I first thought this was a tiger Woods thread.
I see the problem as this:
First, the politicization of science, especially Hansen's lunacy about AGW, has seriously damaged the credibility of the agency in the public eye.
Second, the expectation that the government will lie to the people has serious traction among the general public--they expect it.
Third, the actions of the current administration in regards the economy, etc. are not only not long-term solutions, but have every appearance of devil-take-the-hindmost looting.
With all that meme assembled in the mind of a large number of folks and the constant apocalyptic scenario bombardment of the (predominantly scientifically illiterate) people by pop 'science' media, the tendency for people to believe an ELE or lesser but serious event is on the horizon is common.
To those pushing the meme, science is irrelevant, they're selling soap.
News stories on Elenin are starting to surface on Google.
One that I read today on a science blog, put it’s at perihelion on 9/11/2011...
I may have omitted the decimal point, but the calculation is correct otherwise. :’)
Oh, and psst, since I started the sentence with that figure, I spelled “Point”.
Dependable website Wikipedia? Give me a break. You would think that with this comet’s ever changing path this would be covered extensively by the media...which it hasn’t. Nor have they mentioned it at all.
Of possible interest.
Thanks. The keywords presumably have been updated since this morning since this article didn’t show up with my keyword search. I had not tried searching by title.
Thanks again.
I added it, and of course wondered why no one had thought to add it before. Most inconvenient. :’)
Well, it’s easy to overlook. Due to my frustrations with the FR search function, I often just click a keyword in the thread and then see what other articles pop up. And I add keywords often. Thanks for all your efforts.
My pleasure.
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=C%2F2010%20X1;orb=1;cov=0;log=0;cad=0#orb
check out orbit between OPct- Nov 2011
Sure hope it’s just a flaming ball of gas
This elinin (also spelled elenin) watcher posted 7 March and predicted major earthquake for 11 March, she hit the prediction jackpot
This was uploaded on 7 March, 4 days before Japan earthquake, just saw it today
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95zMdTvoqcQ
This was uploaded on 7 March, 4 days before Japan earthquake, just saw it today
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95zMdTvoqcQ
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