Arecibo Images a Triple Near Earth Asteroid - NEO!

On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:36:50 -0800 (PST), in a place far, far away,
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
way as to indicate that:


Citing Velikovsky doesn't do much for your credibility.- Hide quoted text -

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Of course it wouldn't, Velikovsky's been discredited- everyone knows
that!!!
Wrong, current research is validating many (but not all) of
Velikovsky's claims- read the first book as well as the works of
Victor Clube (Cosmic Winter, etc).

Even a blind squirrel will find a nut once in a while.

On Feb 17, 7:36 pm, wrote:
On Feb 17, 7:25 pm, (Rand Simberg)
wrote:



On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:06:06 -0800 (PST), in a place far, far away,
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
way as to indicate that:

In fact, there is a TON of evidence that the earth is overdue for an
impact.

The earth is hit all the time. The only issue is the size, frequency
and location of the hit. It makes no sense about us being "overdue"
for one unless you're more specific.- Hide quoted text -

Indeed, the earth is hit all the time- far more than most people
realize. When I say the earth is "overdue", however, I'm talking about
the cyclic large-scale impacts, not individual stray comets which may
have impacted the earth. These impacts are correlated with a 12,000
year extinction cycle (the previous impact occured during human
civilization and appears in mythology as the various "Noah stories").
Two books with more info a
The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: Flood, Fire, and Famine in the
History of Civiliztion by Firestone, West, and Warwik-Smith
and
Worlds in Collision by Velikovsky

Citing Velikovsky doesn't do much for your credibility.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Of course it wouldn't, Velikovsky's been discredited- everyone knows
that!!!
Wrong, current research is validating many (but not all) of
Velikovsky's claims- read the first book as well as the works of
Victor Clube (Cosmic Winter, etc).

So-Crates

I agree, just because one makes an honest mistake here or there
doesn't in any way discredit what he/she nailed right on the head.
.. - Brad Guth

Scott Hedrick wrote:
The data from the amateurs that detect comets all the time. How about David
Levy?

I wonder how many of the little ones that show up on the SOHO solar
images are detected prior to SOHO seeing them?
Meanwhile, next Thursday around 4 PM:
http://www.julesverne.ca/images/imgjvcomics/jvclof1.jpg
And a rare image of So-Crates:
http://andertoons.typepad.com/cartoon_blog/comet1.jpg :-)

Pat

Scott Hedrick wrote:
To the contrary, if you are so careless about something so simple and so
central to your argument, it *strongly* suggests you have been slack in
other areas as well. For example, you imply causality but provide nothing
more than coincidence. How do impacts that have not happened yet raise
global temperatures?



Suction and Pressure; Zig-Zag-and-Swirl:
http://www.lawsonomy.org/Lawsonomy108.html
It's just plain obvious when you don't think about it.
Meanwhile, next Thursday around 5 PM:
http://www.boulder.swri.edu/clark/chance/23oldcom.jpg

Pat

On Feb 17, 6:06 pm, "Scott Hedrick" wrote:
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Unfortunately, because commets come from the outer solar system, they
are practically impossible to detect.

To the contrary, comets are detected all the time by non-NASA and indeed
non-government methods. Just ask the folks behind Hale-Bopp.

Furthermore, there is no public

NASA program for the detection of commets, so what data would they use
for the simulation?

The data from the amateurs that detect comets all the time. How about David
Levy?

I agree, there's an existing global network of peer replicated
astronomy that's tracking such NEOs, and as such their data can and
should be within our NASA supercomputer as is, along with all sorts of
viable ways of our giving those +/- whatever orbital considerations
and thereby seeing the end result in 3D eye-candy format within as
little as a few seconds per simulation without hardly warming up 1% of
those extremely fast CPUs.
.. - Brad Guth

wrote:

In fact, there is a TON of evidence that the earth is overdue for an
impact.

What about the recent history of cometary impacts affects the probability of a
future one?

After flipping two million consecutive tails, what is the probability that the
next flip will be a head?


Bob
--

"Things should be described as simply as possible, but no simpler."

A. Einstein

"Bob Cain" wrote in message
news
wrote:

In fact, there is a TON of evidence that the earth is overdue for an
impact.

What about the recent history of cometary impacts affects the probability
of a future one?

After flipping two million consecutive tails, what is the probability that
the next flip will be a head?

If you're assuming a fair coin, 50/50. Of course after 2 million
consecutive tails I'd highly suspect it's not a fair coin.

So your question really is asking two different things.

For cometary impacts, in theory each tme we get impacted by one, that's one
fewer to impact us in the future. Of course the number of total comets is
high enough that it really doesn't matter.




Bob
--

"Things should be described as simply as possible, but no simpler."

A. Einstein



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On Feb 19, 4:34 am, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
wrote:
"Bob Cain" wrote in message

news
wrote:

In fact, there is a TON of evidence that the earth is overdue for an
impact.

What about the recent history of cometary impacts affects the probability
of a future one?

After flipping two million consecutive tails, what is the probability that
the next flip will be a head?

If you're assuming a fair coin, 50/50. Of course after 2 million
consecutive tails I'd highly suspect it's not a fair coin.

So your question really is asking two different things.

For cometary impacts, in theory each tme we get impacted by one, that's one
fewer to impact us in the future. Of course the number of total comets is
high enough that it really doesn't matter.

In our case, we represent two rather significant items of gravity,
thereby attracting rather that avoiding such future NEOs or
lithobraking encounters seems entirely likely.
.. - Brad Guth

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This conclusion is unfounded.

So far, *all* of your conclusions are unfounded.

Perhaps I am a bad speller in general.

Then learn.

Perhaps I type quickly and make typos

Then slow down and/or learn to type better.

(and if you notice, I originally spelled 'comet' correctly).

Which *really* goes to show just how little care you put into your posts.

Perhaps I'm not an native english speaker?

Doesn't matter if you were native or naturalized.

Both you and "Pat" need to learn basic logic.

Not from you.

Please show me how I "implied causality".

No. It's your post.

There is no causal link between commet impacts and global warming, yet
there are strong
correlations that happen in EVERY CASE.

And yet again with the bad spelling and unfounded statements. That you once
again could not spell "comet" correctly, having already done so in the same
post, says everything that needs to be said about you and your "research".

The exact mechanism behind it
is unknown.

Or could be coincidence with other factors that are related.


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On Apr 25, 9:44 pm, "Scott Hedrick" wrote:
wrote in message

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This conclusion is unfounded.

So far, *all* of your conclusions are unfounded.

Perhaps I am a bad speller in general.

Then learn.

Perhaps I type quickly and make typos

Then slow down and/or learn to type better.

(and if you notice, I originally spelled 'comet' correctly).

Which *really* goes to show just how little care you put into your posts.

Perhaps I'm not an native english speaker?

Doesn't matter if you were native or naturalized.

Both you and "Pat" need to learn basic logic.

Not from you.

Please show me how I "implied causality".

No. It's your post.

There is no causal link between commet impacts and global warming, yet
there are strong

correlations that happen in EVERY CASE.

And yet again with the bad spelling and unfounded statements. That you once
again could not spell "comet" correctly, having already done so in the same
post, says everything that needs to be said about you and your "research".

The exact mechanism behind it

is unknown.

Or could be coincidence with other factors that are related.

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Good grief, get over your topic/author stalking and bashing self.
.. - BG