Earth is in danger...

[michaelrc]

Hey folks the mainstream news is there for you? Rather sad..., but expected in order to maintain a bit of relevancy and better late than not at all. Maybe a prepping video or two is in order.

"Earth is in grave danger of being hit by a catastrophic comet shower triggered by the sun, warn scientists."

_https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/10/15/first-big-cold-snap-to-bring-sub-freezing-lows-lake-effect-snow-for-eastern-u-s/

 

[know_yourself_1234]

Hello,

No way to find the quoted sentence in the provided article!

It seems there was recently a massive solar eruption; I think that I have a book which shows the correlation between solar eruptions and radical events in humanity, like wars and so. As te book did not cover the last eruption, what will happen this time? We may luckily assist Donald Trump's crazy blond hair catching some solar flares passing by

 

[michaelrc]

Yep your right about the quote. Sorry needed more coffee. :

Earth is in grave danger of being hit by a catastrophic comet shower triggered by the sun, warn scientists

_http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3287126/Earth-grave-danger-catastrophic-comet-shower-triggered-sun-warn-scientists.html

 

[mkrnhr]

Yep your right about the quote. Sorry needed more coffee. :

Earth is in grave danger of being hit by a catastrophic comet shower triggered by the sun, warn scientists

_http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3287126/Earth-grave-danger-catastrophic-comet-shower-triggered-sun-warn-scientists.html

First, the information is not new, especially for these million years cycles of massive extinction, only the method of determining them is somewhat different with new data. The latest extinction level event that concerns us as humans is not 11.6 million years ago, but much closer, around 12000 years ago (the younger Dryas "double" event). Even closer, civilization extinction events happened quite often during the Holocene, like the one that terminated the bronze age, and the one more recently that terminated the roman empire, among others.

Second, the title of the Guardian's article doesn't reflect the content of the article, which is common to these kinds of tabloids.

Edit: There is a section in SOTT that deals with this issue of comets and cyclic catastrophes: http://www.sott.net/topic/10-Comets-and-Catastrophe-Series

 

[angelburst29]

Space junk is another problem.

Mysterious Chunk of Space Trash Is on a Collision Course With Earth
http://gizmodo.com/mysterious-chunk-of-space-trash-is-on-a-collision-cours-1738476638

A rogue chunk of debris that orbited Earth far beyond the Moon is making a homecoming on November 13th, astronomers have concluded. WT1190F is one to two meters in length and probably hollow, but beyond that, we have no idea WTF the aptly-named piece of space garbage is.

Much, if not all of WT1190F will burn up in orbit around 06:19 GMT on November 13th. Any remaining fragments will splash into the Indian Ocean just south of Sri Lanka, so if you were planning a fishing outing on that very day, maybe reschedule. The event will go unnoticed by most of the world, but the astronomers who track near-Earth objects are all in a tizzy over it. WT1190F’s atmospheric re-entry is a rare opportunity for scientists to study how incoming objects interact with our atmosphere. It’s also giving astronomers the chance to test-drive a coordinated network they’ve put in place for occasions when more dangerous space objects comes a-knockin’.

A piece of space junk on a collision course with Earth appears as a bright spec in the center of the GIF below. Image Credit: B. Bolin, R. Jedicke, M. Micheli

I just hope we get to learn what it is. While there are many thousands of piece of space trash — satellite fragments, spent rocket stages, old paneling — orbiting close to the Earth, we’ve only tracked 20 or so artificial objects in distant orbits. WT1190F, with a highly elliptical orbit tracing twice as far out as the Earth-Moon distance, is a pretty special piece of trash. As Harvard astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell told Nature News, it could be a “lost piece of space history come back to haunt us,” perhaps an old rocket fragment from the Apollo era.

 

[know_yourself_1234]

As Harvard astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell told Nature News, it could be a “lost piece of space history come back to haunt us”

"Nature News"

 

[angelburst29]

Mysterious Chunk of Space Trash Is on a Collision Course With Earth
http://gizmodo.com/mysterious-chunk-of-space-trash-is-on-a-collision-cours-1738476638

A rogue chunk of debris that orbited Earth far beyond the Moon is making a homecoming on November 13th, astronomers have concluded. WT1190F is one to two meters in length and probably hollow, but beyond that, we have no idea WTF the aptly-named piece of space garbage is.

Much, if not all of WT1190F will burn up in orbit around 06:19 GMT on November 13th. Any remaining fragments will splash into the Indian Ocean just south of Sri Lanka.....

The "WTF" in WT1190F ..... breezed right past my head - the reversed "911" should have clued me in?

Unidentified Space Junk Labelled ‘WTF’ Is About To Crash Into Earth
http://news.yahoo.com/unidentified-space-junk-labelled-wtf-is-about-to-102543276.html

A piece of space junk that has been given the apt name of ‘WTF’ is heading straight for Earth - and will crash into us in less than a month.

No one seems to know exactly what the flying object actually is - hence the name - but they are in no doubt we are in its path.

All anyone is sure off is that it is about two metres wide and could be hollow inside - meaning it might be man-made.

But how would a man-made object be hurtling in space and on a collision course with the planet where it originated?

Astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell explained: “[It could be] a lost piece of space history that’s come back to haunt us.”

A piece of space junk that has been given the apt name of ‘WTF’ is heading straight for Earth - and will crash into us in less than a month.

No one seems to know exactly what the flying object actually is - hence the name - but they are in no doubt we are in its path.

All anyone is sure off is that it is about two metres wide and could be hollow inside - meaning it might be man-made.

But how would a man-made object be hurtling in space and on a collision course with the planet where it originated?

Astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell explained: “[It could be] a lost piece of space history that’s come back to haunt us.”

 

[angelburst29]

We have the first confirmed footage of the mysterious space junk WT1190F burning up in Earth's atmosphere, and it's amazing
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/first-confirmed-footage-mysterious-space-141553564.html

Earlier this morning a piece of space junk called WT1190F entered Earth's atmosphere and disintegrated. Here's some of the only confirmed footage of the spectacular event we've seen: Did you see it? It's the bright streak of light that looks like a shooting star.

This footage was collected by a team of scientists working with SETI, the United Arab Emirates Space Agency, the InterActiveCorp, and other institutions.

To get such a close look, some of the team members hopped on a plane so they could be in the air at the time WT1190F entered the atmosphere. Of course, they were flying at a safe enough distance from the object that it posed no threat to their aircraft.

WT1190F re-entered Earth's atmosphere over a patch of Indian Ocean off the Sri Lankan coast, which meant that only people located in the southern province of Sri Lanka had a chance to spot it.

Luckily, some of them posted some pretty great pictures on Twitter:

(BPEarthWatch)
Today's event was the first time that experts had calculated the exact time and location a piece of space junk would re-enter Earth's atmosphere.

Though it is nearly impossible to know what WT1190F is, the European Space Agency suspects it could be a chunk of a fuel tank that once powered a rocket to space and was then discarded.

Scientists hope to use their observations of how WT1190F broke up to improve predictive models of how objects interact with Earth's atmosphere, which is important for establishing danger zones if, say, a large asteroid were to strike over a highly populated area at some point in the unforeseen future.

Check out the team's full footage on YouTube or below:

 

[Ca.]

ESA Director General marks Asteroid Day 2016
Published on Jun 30, 2016

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ESA Director General Jan Woerner sends a message to mark Asteroid Day 2016, an annual global movement to increase public awareness of potential asteroid impacts with Earth, and the importance of guarding against them. It is held each year on 30 June, the anniversary of the largest impact in recent history, the 1908 Tunguska event in Siberia.

Where's the Popcorn.............Still sounds like a subliminal message.
Added:
Jupiter: Into the Unknown (NASA Juno Mission Trailer)
Published on Jun 23, 2016
_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgEsf4QcR0Q

 

[mkrnhr]

I heard about this asteroid day a few days ago, and upon seeing it the first reaction is skepticism. The first reason was upon seeing that the chairman of the expert panel was M. Boslough. The second reason was seeing the use of celebrities, including the well known TV clown named something Tyson:

The operation looks like damage control and disinformation around a real subject, using experts and show business celebrities. For instance, why "asteroid"-day and not "meteor" day? Asteroids are officially distinguished from comets, so the whole subject of comet fragmentation and impacts is brushed away. Also, people can observe that more and more meteors are observed almost on a daily basis, while asteroids are way out there, only accessible to "experts".

R. Feynman has this to say about experts:

As a matter of fact, I can also define science another way: Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

As an example of damage control, in the official web page of the asteroid day, Dr. Bos has this to say to a question about the Younger Dryas comet impact, widely documented in the scientific literature:

from _http://resources.asteroidday.org/resources/what-created-the-many-elliptical-carolina-bay-landform-depressions-and-what-caused-the-younger-dryas-cooling-period-12900-years-ago/

It might be tempting to suggest that a comet or asteroid coincidentally struck the ice sheet at this time, triggering the flow that slowed down the current and changed the climate. However, Occam’s Razor tells us that the simplest explanation consistent with all the observations is almost always the best one. Large asteroid and comet impacts are extremely rare events—much less frequent than meltwater floods from ice dams that collapse on their own. 12,900 years is an eye-blink when talking about geological time. If there had been a large impact that recently, the resulting crater and widespread ejecta would be unmistakable. The lack of extraordinary evidence for an extraordinary impact event is inconsistent with the comet hypothesis. This means that the Younger-Dryas cooling was almost certainly caused by the same mechanism that led to previous cooling periods—rapid outflow of fresh water into the ocean from melting ice sheets.

There is no chance that they would ever mention the "lesser?" catastrophes that ended the bronze age or the roman civilization and others, well within the current interglacial.