To: Blzbba
Huh? I've never heard this espoused by ANYone, conservative Christian or otherwise. I believe a NASA and Caltech cosmologist have a theory that Mars and the Earth were in synchronous orbits (360 and 720 day years?), at one time and every (something like) 144 years there would be a near pass by and an energy transfer would occur. And somewhere around 700BC a large transfer occurred that altered the orbits of both planets to where they are now. They supposedly used very sophisticated computer analysis that validates the possibility of this.
I have not heard anymore about it for about 5 years now, and am kind of fuzzy on the facts. I don't recall the analysis being conclusive, but then again, it is being compared to evolution. So being conclusive becomes somewhat arbitrary.
14 posted on
08/01/2005 8:23:32 AM PDT by
D Rider
To: D Rider
On which subject - Mars will be at a "close approach" in about a month.
To: D Rider
at one time and every (something like) 144 years there would be a near pass by and an energy transfer would occur. And somewhere around 700BC a large transfer occurred that altered the orbits of both planets to where they are now. Hoo boy, this sounds straight out of Kooksville. If anyone can suggest a mechanism for this sort of "large energy transfer", I would be most interested to read about it.
22 posted on
08/01/2005 10:03:13 AM PDT by
malakhi
To: D Rider; RadioAstronomer
I believe a NASA and Caltech cosmologist have a theory that Mars and the Earth were in synchronous orbits (360 and 720 day years?), at one time and every (something like) 144 years there would be a near pass by and an energy transfer would occur. And somewhere around 700BC a large transfer occurred that altered the orbits of both planets to where they are now. They supposedly used very sophisticated computer analysis that validates the possibility of this. I doubt this seriously. This sounds like a lot of New Age hogwash.
30 posted on
08/01/2005 10:53:30 AM PDT by
Junior
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