I understand three dimensions.
What you need to understand is: We don't know WHERE Ison's debris IS.
We don't know HOW Ison disintegrated. Was it a crumbling,
or was it an explosive disintegration cause from highly pressurized gases (heated to a high pressurization by the Sun's heat and radiation) inside the nucleus of Ison?
We don't know WHERE Ison disintegrated? Did it happen BEFORE Ison started its "Sling-shot" around the Sun,an thus, requiring a smaller change in its path to cause a danger to Earth?
Did it happen during the "Sling-shot" around the Sun?
Did it happen after the "Sling-shot" around the Sun?
IS the "V" pattern observed in its departure from the Sun just a "V" or is it a "Cone" shape shrapnel pattern that continues to widen as it travels through space?
I have no confidence that Earth is out of the danger from Ison's debris trail, just because Hubble didn't observe anything.
I have a very good friend that worked at Kwajalein Space Communications And Control Facility, who maintained their radar and long distance communications equipment.
He left there in the mid to late 80s, and he told me that the equipment of his day could not get a return on an object 500 feet in diameter
(depending upon its makeup, whether metal, an asteroid, or comet debris) until it was within 50,000 miles of Earth.
Now I know that technology has only gotten better since the 80s,
but at Ison's debris' speed, that's only about one hour or two hours at best, early notification that we're in danger of a "near miss" or an impact.
That's not enough notification to really do anything about it
unless we have people standing and waiting at the ready to react to an immediate notification.
But you're so confident that we're not in danger.
You obviously never fired a shot-gun blast of pellets, have you?
"I understand three dimensions."
Apparently not.
ISON is not at all heading towards us.
The images showing the swing around the sun showed it following the orbit expected of it and not heading off somewhere else.
BPEarthwatch's claim that Mercury would somehow magically drag ISON into us is BS.
http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/Animations/Inner_2011.gif
IF the BS described by BPEarthwatch were somehow real, anything on that plot heading past Mercury would be magically altered from orbit.
They are not.
Because that is not possible.
And might I remind you of his initial claims:Comet ison large debris moving fast
ALL of that is BS.
Mercury isn't going to drag ISON into us, the moon isn't going to drag ISON into us.
AND when looking at the inner solar system from near the plane of the ecliptic, items that are half an orbit away appear to be near each other.
Hey, let's play tricks with cameras!
Just like BPEarthwatch, A.K.A. MrCometWatch who did this same BS with Elenin!
Two weeks ago he said this on the video you initially linked in your thread: “ Ison is a V shaped debris field with objects that are miles wide each..at least 21 large ones.. they are moving at 2 million miles per day. Ison is moving away from Secchi A at that speed which makes it appear smaller from that camera each hour.. THE ROCKS ARE DARK NOW. They will become darker as they move further from the sun over Earth..They will not become smaller.”
Let’s examine that statement: Makes it appear smaller”?
Uh, then explain how it appeared the same on the way in at the same distance.
And the hubble saw nothing which means anything there is must be smaller than 500 foot, not “Miles and miles wide”* -said in stoned voice.
And there aren’t 21 pieces.
I like how he, once again, places an image stolen from something else and uses it to ‘prove’ his point.
Take something, use an unfamiliar image of it, claim it is something else entirely.
That is what BPEarthwatch does.
