You might begin by reading some good books for beginners on basic astronomy and astrophysics and comets. Next try some books on introductory physics. That would be time much better spent than watching BPEarthwatch YouTube videos.
http://www.amazon.com/Physics-Comets-Scientific-Astronomy-Astrophysics/dp/9810226322
“The footage is real” but the interpretation of it by Jessie Waltman of BPEarthwatch and the wild assumptions he makes are wildly incorrect and laughable to anyone with even a basic understanding of astronomy and comets.
But the admin moderator (probably you) refused to allow verifiable proof on Free Republic that the disintegrated pieces from Ison's inbound path are huge.
LOL! Me? An admin moderator? LOL! No. I am not one, have never been one, don’t want to be one. But if I was, if it was within my power to do so, I’d not only pull your threads, I’d also ZOT your account for sheer stupidity and for making the rest of us conservatives look stupid and uneducated if not even mentally ill.
And where do come up with the"... and it was estimated to only be about a half mile in diameter at most, a rather small comet. "
ISON, about half a mile wide, was tiny and probably smaller than originally estimated.
And again for you edification, the solar flares on the YouTube videos you keep posting has nothing to do with ISON. Can you even comprehend how large and powerful the Sun is compared to a half or even a 3 mile wide comet? As I stated in my previous post, it is analogous to taking a piss in the Pacific Ocean in California and then trying to link that to a tsunami in Japan on the other side of the world weeks or months later.
"...the Earth is simply not going to intersect with any outbound ISON comet debris ..." That's your opinion (and thanks for the nice graphic), but that remains yet to be proven, and we're not safe about that until AFTER the 1st of January 2014.
Again, the "shotgun blast" theory of Ison's debris, especially since we now know that disintegration was going on well before Ison crossed Mars inbound, would allow time for a very wide cone of debris on its outbound path, as well as the inbound path.
The graphic I posted is accurate, factual and scientific (did you even read the link?) but because it doesn’t fit into your “disaster porn” obsession, you are dismissing it. The Earth will intersect with the inbound path of ISON in January but what we will pass through is so minuscule (dust) it will probably go completely unnoticed compared to yearly meteor showers from the cosmic debris from much, much larger long lived comets. And keep in mind that even in during the most “spectacular” yearly meteor showers like the Geminids or Leonids, most of what we see as “shooting stars” are no bigger than grains of rice. And what we see as “fire balls” are not much larger, baseball or basket ball size and they burn up, albeit brightly high up in the earth’s atmosphere never coming anywhere near an Earth impact. And while we do have meteorites that occasionally hit the Earth, these meteorites are not from comet debris but from asteroids.
http://geology.com/articles/meteor-shower.shtml
http://www.armaghplanet.com/html/meteorites.html
We are simply not going to intersect with the outbound path of ISON as the graphic clearly shows and even if we did, what is left from ISON (RIP) is so small, smaller than grains of sand, that we would not likely to even see or notice them.
There is simply no, as you put it “shotgun blast” theory or large chunks of ISON or any comet debris from ISON that pose any danger for Earth except for in the twisted minds of “disaster porn” obsessionists like you and Jessie Waltman.
BPEarthwatch / Jessie Waltman has been completely wrong in all his previous ISON predictions; didn’t he predict at one point that ISON would crash into the Earth on its way to the Sun?
I think that you and Jessie Waltman must be quite disappointed that there wasn’t some sort of apocalyptic catastrophic event associated with ISON because it didn’t fit into your “End Times” beliefs and you didn’t get to witness the mass horrific deaths of your fellow human beings and the mass destruction of the planet we call home, but yet you and Jessie seem to keep hoping for it to happen. But cheer up, it will happen eventually when our Sun goes Nova but you and I and our ancestors will be far long gone before that happens. We might one day get hit by another large extinction level asteroid, but keep in mind that this has happened before in Earth’s history and life went on.