Posted on 07/03/2005 7:06:44 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Absolutely none of that "electric universe" crap will pan out.
Period.
OK.... THAT MEANS THAT THE EAST COAST WILL SEE THE RELAY/REPLAYS....
THANKS
I predict the World will REMEMBER Ronald Reagan, when we decide to shoot a Comet, and then we do it.
The only real message that the World's Leaders will recognize, not the Science, not the Knowledge gained, but the fact that we HIT a High Speed Space Target with a Warhead.
Great Message actually.
TT
Anybody know what the current Impact time is?
Should be in about an hour from now.
http://www.worldagesarchive.com/Individual%20Web%20Pages/Velikovsky_Links.html
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Many ancient cosmological myths referred to a battle in the sky in which the planet god slays a sky monster, usually a dragon or a serpent. According to the Mayas: "The sun refused to show itself and during four days the world was deprived of light. Then a great star appeared and it was given the name of Quetzacoatl." That means feathered serpent, a term which may indicate a comet with a tail. In other myths, the battle was between Bel and the Dragon, Marduk and Tiamat, Isis and Seth, Vishnu and the Serpent, and Zeus and Typhon. In the Greek myth, the final act of the sky battle takes place at Lake Serbon on the borders of Palestine and Egypt.
Other traditions and myths suggest that the new star, which disrupted the movement of the earth and caused a world conflagration, as a comet which became Venus. Pythagoreans claimed that one of the planets had been a comet, and it is variously described as having had feathers, a beard, horns, a crown of awful splendor, or as scattering its flame in fire.
Velikovsky claimed that Venus was hitherto unknown and that these traditions record its birth. The astronomical charts of the Hindus, Babylonians and Mayas, all of whom were particularly interested in astronomy, show only four planets. In the Hindu table of planets, dated 3100 BCE, Venus alone is absent, and the Babylonians named Venus "the great star that joins the other great stars." Even more significant are the astronomical tablets of the Assyrians, found at Nineveh. They comprised the year-formula of an early king named Ammizaduza, and appear to show either obvious errors or that the orbit of Venus was previously different. Sky charts found in an Egyptian tomb dating from the period of Queen Hatshepsut show the stars in reversed orientation...
Velikovsky's books are available from Amazon, link on the above site.
So far, it has a better track record of explaining observed phenomena and making predictions than the traditional theories.
Hose, you are projecting again, (I'm sure you hear that alot)
Remember for all the rest of us it's the motion of the Ocean
TT
Sorry, someone had to say it.
The remains of the recently vaporized inhabitants.
Trajan88
What if the damn thing just goes 'splat'???
I predict the designer of this project develops a deep impacted colon.
The 816-pound copper impactor projectile will sail through the roof of a sleepy comet bar, instantly vaporizing the inhabitants, the dance floor and hundreds of gallons of celestial alcohol, thankfully after most patrons have already gone home to their pods. The impact will be so violent that it will take out one of the shopping districts, a school, a dilithium storage yard and much of the transit depot. The resulting crater will eventually dislodge the remnants of the copper projectile, luckily the most scarce and valuable element on Tempel, as the locals have long since learned that you can't make everything from diamonds, platinum and ethanol. Once the brief period of angry Bush-bashing subsides, they will thank us. Really.
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