Lunatic Theory about Planet Allignment

Larry G wrote in message ...

The Solar System has been around for roughly 4 Billion years. So . . .

4 Billion / 2600 = 1,538,461.53...

This conjunction (alignment) has already happened over 1.5 Million times.
The Earth is still in its orbit, last time I checked.

And - - we suffer numerous tornados every year
- earthquakes are a weekly, if not daily occurance, though obviously not in
the same place

Suggest to your lunatic friend to find more appropriate thrills
(and a much better education) than scaring the sh*t out of friends
and acquaintances, with utterly absurd nonsense.

Cheers,
Larry G.

I'm sure he will say that we pop back into orbit when the planets pass
by. I tried explaining to him that the fossil record shows no huge
floods etc.

My friend acts as if he was given a post hypnotic suggestion. He is
obsessed with the end-of-the-world (E.O.W.) scenarios involving
planets. I call him "Pete the lunatic". I've told him MANY times he is
a lunatic. He's "predicted" the EOW many times for the past 10 years!
He even lobbies Congress in Washington, DC. (He's retired and gets a
VA and Social Security checks.)

I tried to alert him to the REAL potential for castrophe when we reach
Peak Oil and demand outstrips supply.

He was a very succesful, energetic chemical engineer for a mining
company but completly "lost it" (and all his assets too) when his
stupid wife committed adultry.

Pete is steeped in Villiskofsky (spelling), Ignacious Donnally (a
former US Senator!) and literal intrepetation of ancient scriptures
about the "sun standing still" and Mayan mythology.

Believe it or not, he is currently holed up in the desert with about a
ton of dried food and plans to find a cave to survive the catastrophe.

Thanks for the links to "badastronomy".