“There have been, and will be again, many destructions of mankind arising out of many causes; the greatest have been brought about by the agencies of fire and water, and other lesser ones by innumerable other causes.
“There is a story, which even you have preserved, that once upon a time Phaethon, the son of Helios, having yoked the steeds in his father’s chariot, because he was not able to drive them in the path of his father, burnt up all that was upon the earth, and was himself destroyed by a thunderbolt. Now this has the form of a myth, but really signifies a declination of the bodies moving in the heavens around the earth, and a great conflagration of things upon the earth, which recurs after long intervals;...
“Whereas just when you and other nations are beginning to be provided with letters and the other requisites of civilized life, after the usual interval, the stream from heaven, like a pestilence, comes pouring down, and leaves only those of you who are destitute of letters and education; and so you have to begin all over again like children, and know nothing of what happened in ancient times...”
Plato
The Earth orbits the Sun. The Sun orbits the galactic center which takes about 250 million years. Ever wonder what the Earth encounters during that time? I doubt NASA does either.
For extra credit, how does that affect climate?
What would happen to Earth if a fairly large meteor hit the Moon ?
Also left out in this is if they know about an asteroid, what can they do about it? Nothing.
Didn’t mention this one, probably politically incorrect:
Genesis 19:4 Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven;
25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
27 And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord:
28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
29 And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.
Homer had the listed cities [including the City of Pigeons?]that contributed troops and ships to the Trojan War arranged as the points of a Maltese Cross which could only be seen from space. How did he know that? Some of the cities` remains have been discovered right where Homer said they were via satellite photos...hmmmmm
Am I the only one who thought (and still thinks) that the meteor over Russia was actually part of or might have been totally in fact that asteroid that was set to make it’s closest approach to Earth ever that day?
These administrators were clearly trying to convey to the public an attitude of “don’t worry, we have it all under control.”
Of course they were. It’s like how they give those “in-flight safety” speeches every time you fly on an airplane. They say you can use your seat cushion in the event of a “water landing”, but there has never been a “water landing” of a jumbo jet where anyone survived to worry about drowning. It’s more to keep you from worrying than anything else.
An asteroid hitting Earth is a threat that, most likely, nobody is going to be able to predict, much less do anything about. So the best they can do is pretend like they have a plan, so we won’t worry about something out of our control.
Thanks for posting this. I missed this when it was on TV. I am shocked that NASA etc have been basically lying for years about what exactly they are tracking. Anything that can wipe out life (or at least us) on a continent would pretty much destroy most of humanity from after effects. I guess I was under the impression they were watching more than they are. Helps to explain what happened recently when Russia got hit on same day they were paying attention to the near miss (17000 miles or whatever it was).
‘The “major” threats were defined as asteroids large enough to destroy all life on Earth.’
The way things are going, it’s a testament to G-d’s infinite mercy and astounding patience that He hasn’t already sent one of these our way.
They can track all the asteroids and comets in the universe and it will do no good. Movies notwithstanding, if they are a collision course with us we are virtually powerless to stop them.