Posted on 05/13/2022 12:47:04 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Good
At last.
During the early days of the solar system, asteroid collisions with planets were fairly common. But the asteroids with orbits that crossed planetary orbits where cleared out by collisions, just as one might expect, purely by chance, over billions of years, with very few survivors. The ones we see these days are mostly visitors from the Oort Cloud, whose orbits were perturbed by encounters with other Oort Cloud objects.
Don Lemon, is that you? What if the sonic boom is swallowed by a black hole?
I’m with you....
Let’s get some pictures, boys!
Johnny, see what can you make out of this?
I hadn’t thought of that, or much of anything. Must be all the stress. 👁
Am wondering if it hits there whether it’ll be a big bang or just a schpluck. Being it is a swamp and all that.
True story: went in to see my boss. Of course Airplane was the farthest thing from my mind. I handed her an important paper and asked “What do you make of this?” Without missing a beat she said “Well.. I can make a hat, or a broach, or a pterodactyl.”
I thought I was going to die laughing.
I’m with you. Let’s get it over with. Why prolong the agony.
And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood; And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed. And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of watersRevelation 8:8-10.Soon but not yet...
Oh, not to worry, it WILL happen. See Post #34.
If you know Jesus you will only watch it happen from Heaven’s Mezzanine. You just don’t want to be here where it all comes crashing down.
PBS NOVA had an episode which explored what exactly happened on the day the Chicxulub asteroid hit. They found a fossil of a fish from that time with tiny glass spheres from molten ejecta in it’s gills which indicated that it died on the day of impact. Research had also shown that, based on the effects of an earthquake in Japan observed halfway around the planet in Norway, shock waves traveled through the Earth’s crust which were violent enough to fracture the leg bones and hips of any animal even our size anywhere on the globe.
Good.
When the global warming folks can correctly make predictions like that, I'll believe them because that demonstrates a real understanding of the system.
Not disagreeing, but the rate of collisions would be expected to decay exponentially, given that an earth crossing object’s probability of collision is the same on any single orbit, for the same reason that the amount radioactive material decays exponentially.
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