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Approaching Comet (inter solar system)
Spaceweather.com ^
| 1.09.2009
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Posted on 01/08/2009 4:27:09 AM PST by wolfcreek
Comet Lulin (C/2007 N3), discovered in 2007 by a Strait-bridging team of astronomers from Taiwan and China, is swinging around the sun and approaching Earth. Astronomer Karzaman Ahmad sends this picture taken Jan. 7th from the Langkawi National Observatory in Malaysia:
(Excerpt) Read more at spaceweather.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: c2007n3; catastrophism; comet; comet2007n3; cometlulin; doomsday; greencomet; lulin
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To: silverleaf
How many people woould pay their mortgages if they knew we were facing extinction in 3 months?
Again, would it matter?
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posted on
01/08/2009 5:15:52 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
To: wolfcreek
If you can’t see any tail you’re in the wrong bar. ;^)
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posted on
01/08/2009 5:19:25 AM PST
by
saganite
To: SlowBoat407
That wasn’t fair I just finished breakfast.
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posted on
01/08/2009 5:20:45 AM PST
by
Rappini
("Pro deo et Patria.)
To: decimon
Gee, I hate surprises. Me too. I've had enough surprises in the past year to last the rest of my life.
To: wolfcreek
Sort of like a tornado, if you can't see it moving, kiss your ass goodbye.
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posted on
01/08/2009 5:26:11 AM PST
by
boomop1
To: Rappini
Me too, and it’s my birthday wife took me out to eat Hardee’s.
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posted on
01/08/2009 5:27:58 AM PST
by
boomop1
To: wolfcreek
I dont know. That seems a little close for comfort. (especially since they dont know how it will react as it approaches the Sun.)
HURRY! Somebody get Harry Stamper on the phone. And call Steve Tyler. The end of humanity could use some Aerosmith background music.
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posted on
01/08/2009 5:31:45 AM PST
by
RoadKingSE
(How do you know that the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a muzzle flash?)
To: wolfcreek
I saw a movie once where lots of people turned into brain eating zombies because of some comet or asteroid. I hope it doesn’t happen again......
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posted on
01/08/2009 5:32:53 AM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(Today is just a little more special than yesterday.)
To: Hot Tabasco
I saw a movie once where lots of people turned into brain eating zombies because of some comet or asteroid. I hope it doesnt happen again......
So, that's how we got all the moonbat liberals!
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posted on
01/08/2009 5:36:24 AM PST
by
ZX12R
To: AFreeBird
Almost seems like an apt way to finish out 2008.....but alas, 2008 is already closed.
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posted on
01/08/2009 5:41:15 AM PST
by
Red in Blue PA
(Guns don't kill people; abortion clinics do.)
To: Hot Tabasco; ZX12R
see post #20
“Night of the Comet”
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posted on
01/08/2009 5:41:18 AM PST
by
wolfcreek
(I see miles and miles of Texas....let's keep it that way.)
To: Eye of Unk
You talking about the new one?
He’s be on the boob tube babbling banal bromides right up to the very end.
To: SouthDixie
No, Jupiter will align with Mars and peace will guide the planet and love will fill the sky.
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posted on
01/08/2009 5:56:29 AM PST
by
sticker
To: wolfcreek
Oh, once more, just for Auld Lang Syne:
it’s BUSH’S FAULT!!!
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posted on
01/08/2009 5:59:36 AM PST
by
Humble Servant
(See you all in the Gulag.)
To: Hot Tabasco
Pickins are gonna be slim in the blue states.
To: SlowBoat407
Aw Man ....Don’t do that stuff.....
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posted on
01/08/2009 6:21:14 AM PST
by
Robe
(Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
To: cripplecreek
No, that is what requires one to sit on one of the inflatable donut thingies.......
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posted on
01/08/2009 6:26:56 AM PST
by
ALASKA
(I feel more like I do today than I did yesterday.....)
To: Eye of Unk
I wonder if there was a truly life threatening extinction event on the near horizon would our glorious leader tell us?
12/21/12
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posted on
01/08/2009 6:35:18 AM PST
by
Don Corleone
(Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
To: Don Corleone
Actually that date is going to have all of the worlds conspiracy theorists going nuts, I don’t believe it has any meaning.
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posted on
01/08/2009 6:39:43 AM PST
by
Eye of Unk
(How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! SA)
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