Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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#1
Forget 21 December 2012, there is news of a real spectacle heading for us in February 2013. Should be worth watching out for.
http://news.sky.com/home/technology/article/16189789Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#2
only one thing for it, altogether now in a scottish accent, "we're doomed".
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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#3
It does say that it will miss us, might take out a few satellites though.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#4
...and then there is the possibility of interaction with Solar flares?
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#5
Oops! Double post.
I've been de-Virgined* today more often than a conchie's sister post Dunkerque. (had things gone pear-shaped)
*Virgin. My ISP
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Brian Dixon
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#6
oh well only one thing to do,and thats sending bruce willis and co to blow it up with a iranian nuke what they havnt got,to save the world.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#7
Chris, it's going to be hard to forget December 21st 2012. As the date draws closer, the Web will be inundated with predictions of all sorts.
From Mayans to Hopis, Egyptian pyramids to the Sphynx, Sybel's oracles, Mother Shipton; and every finger apparently pointing to December 21st 2012.
By comparison, this little rock you mention is nothing more than an insignificant H-bomb
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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#8
so somthing is going to happen on the shortist day,[winter eqinox].so shell i get loads of food and drink in just in case nothing happens.
Guest 743- Registered: 28 Feb 2012
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#9
I got my Umbrella just in case
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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#10
hi john and wellcome,only an umbrella you might need a nbc suit as well.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#11
It's just one asteroid, John, not a meteorite shower. It's got the power of an H bomb, so a steel helmet might be more appropriate.
However, it will not penetrate the atmosphere. But from my experience of the Web, people will be making all sorts of weird predictions.
I already know them off by heart: the poles will invert, there will be big waves, Burlington House will come down... , but fortunately there will be December 21st before that! Ahem
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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#12
Even were this asteroid to hit, although it would take out an area the size of Greater London, it would not be the end of the world. In scale it is not much larger than the one that hit Tunguska in 1908 and they had to send expeditions out to look for the damage.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#13
Thud! But if it splashed into the sea, what then?
I'm trying to figure out what Dec. 22nd will be like, the day after. Feb. 2013 can wait!
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#14
Not worth panicking about. If it happens, it happens. It's never worth getting worked up about something you can't control.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 666- Registered: 25 Mar 2008
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#15
Still waiting to be hit by fragments of the space station, or has it already come down.
I always thought that the atmosphere would protect us from all the debris out there - burn it upon entry and such?
If not then all those smoking guns will need to be pointed space-wards soon.
Oh Boy!, That'll be the day.........
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#16
The atmosphere only protects us against dust particles from Space and very small objects, as well as ultra-violet sun rays (providing the ozone layer hasn't been destroyed in places).
Anything the size of a stone and bigger will get through.
To blow up a large object in Space could be extremely dangerous, as it would transform it into thousands of small pieces all flying in various orbits, hitting satellites and eventually showering down to Earth, together with the fragments of satellites.
#17
#14, exactly.
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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#18
There was a magnitude 9 earthquake predicted for the Pacific rim on 22 March. Oops, missed that one maybe it will be Nostrodamus's final conflict in 1999 and going on for 7 years. No missed that one as well............back to the drawing board and tarot cards.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#19
What earthquake prediction was that, Chris? Magnitude 9 would be disastrous.
You mention Nostradamus. The biggest current on-going debate on his predictions is over the name: Mabus. It is considered an angramme for a person.
N. did predict the name of Hitler, only slightly varied by way of anagramme.
Hitler was Hister, with "hysterical" as a possible clue.
"Pax Ney Loron" is thought to mean Napolyon Rex (emperor).
He also wrote about London:
The blood of the just will be demanded of London,
Burnt by the fire in the year 66
The ancient Lady will fall from her high place
And many of the same sect will be killed
Although fascinated by the Nostradamus subject, I decline to make assessments of my own from his verses.