Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Is It Real That A Doomsday Comet Will Hit Earth In 2012?

The latest Nostradamus-driven hysteria is that a Doomsday comet will hit Earth in December 21, 2012. How true is this, is it real? Or, is it just bringing terror to the people?

We have received a lot of news like this before telling that doomsday will come to earth that will kill all the people and and world will be gone...etc etc etc! As a result of it, many people around the world became worried of their everyday living. Another point is that other people are very much focus on a human-made book of prophecies. Yes! What I am talking about is the writings of a famous man who can foretold the future(?). Of course, I know that you know who am I pertaining to. Yup yup yup, he was Nostradamus!

First of all, do you know who Nostradamus is? Fot those who doesn't know about him, I quoted what an online encyclopedia said about him,
"Michel de Nostredame (14 December 1503 or 21 December 1503 – 2 July 1566), usually Latinized to Nostradamus, was a French apothecary and reputed seer who published collections of prophecies that have since become famous worldwide. He is best known for his book Les Propheties (The Prophecies), the first edition of which appeared in 1555. Since the publication of this book, which has rarely been out of print since his death, Nostradamus has attracted an enthusiastic following who, along with the popular press, credits him with predicting many major world events."

Ok? Is it clear to you who is he?

As of now, the latest Nostradamus-driven hysteria is that a comet is going to hit Earth on December 21, 2012. Oops! It is not just a comet but a DOOMSDAY COMET, according to them. This is somehow entangled in interpretations of the Mayan Calendar which predict a comet collision, grand astronomical alignment, or some other cosmic makeover will happen to Earth on December 23, 2012. Yep, before their Christmas!

According to our friend Ray Villard,
he recently received an ominous e-mail from a Mayan calendar disciple: “The Mayan long calendar predicts 2012 to be the date the gravity of the planet Venus negatively affects the moon's lunar trajectory and causes disruptions in the weather patterns on the planet Earth. Known only as, and exacerbated by Global Warming. We need to re-engineer the moon's orbit back to a position agreeable with life on earth. This should be the sole focus of Global Warming talks and endeavors.”

Suffice to say that Venus’ gravitational pull on the moon in infinitesimal compared to Earth's pull. For all practicality both planet are nearly the same mass. But Venus, even at its closest approach to the moon, is 140 times farther away from the moon than the Earth is. Consequently its gravitational pull on the moon is nearly 1/20,000th that of Earth's. Astronomy 101 student can calculate this, without the need of the Mayan calendar.

In light of these doomsday predictions I was bemused this to see that a team of scientist is reporting that our remote ancestor of 12,900 B.C. may have had to face global cooling --rather than global warming -- as a result of a comet collision with Earth. I doubt that if the Mayans, Mr. Camping, or Nostradamus had lived before this event they would have predicted it.

Possibly the earliest Paleo-Indian inhabitants of North America, called the Clovis people, abruptly vanished. Many of the largest animals including mastodons, saber-toothed cats, ground sloths and giant armadillos went extinct.

Climate change has long been the culprit for the extinctions. Nearly 13,000 years ago the planet's emergence from the last Ice Age came to a halt, reverting abruptly to freezing conditions for another 1,500 years. Nothing of the size, extent, or rapidity of this period of abrupt climate change has been experienced since, say experts.

The debated smoking gun evidence for a cosmic collision comes from microscopic diamonds, called nanodiamonds. They are found in a rich sedimentary soil called a "black mat,” that dates back to nearly 13,000 years. Beneath the sooty layer fossils of animals are abundant. But just above that layer, the fossils disappear, along with arrowheads and other artifacts from the Clovis culture.

The heat and pressure from explosions in the atmosphere would have transformed carbon on our planet's surface into the tiny diamonds, say researchers James P. Kennett of the University of California at Santa Barbara and Douglas J. Kennett of the University of Oregon.

Their idea is that a comet broke into pieces while approaching Earth. In what must have been the mother-of-all fireworks spectacles, fragments burned up and exploded over a broad area of North America. There are no telltale craters. The researchers describe several Tunguska type explosions going off in sequence, carpet-bombing North America. Each blast would have lit up the sky, brighter than the sun.

Dust from the impact, combined with soot from continent-wide wildfires could have risen into the atmosphere, blocking sunlight to bring on a nuclear winter. With vast portions of the landscape burned, even those large animals that survived the sky bombardment would have died off as the food chain collapsed.

The idea of a comet breaking up is not conjecture. The so-called sun-grazing comets do often disintegrate into football-field seized pieces. In the early 1990s astronomers followed the breakup of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (SL9) by Jupiter’s gravitational pull. A total of 23 pieces of the comet slammed into Jupiter in July 1994. So-called crater chains are seen on the icy outer moons. These too must have been laid down by a string of comet pieces.

But a veteran of the SL9 event, planetary astronomer Heidi Hammel, recently told me that the idea of comet pieces barreling into North America all at once is pretty implausible. Impacts would have been scattered across Earth as our planet rotated, as we saw in the the SL9 bombardment.

So the bottom line is that no ancient calendar, scripture or soothsayer can predict what the cosmic roll of dice will deal us. And, evidence for past Armageddons can be pretty dicey too. Like a good insurance actuator, we can only look at probabilities, and even these are no all inclusive.

Oh, how sad! But don't be bother yet. Those are just SPECULATIONS! Again, this thing is not so sure, so don't panic! Ok?

By the way, I found this video on Youtube regarding the Doomsday comet that will hit Earth in 2012. Lol!

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1 comment:

  1. Something will happen on that day. There's too much stuff from different sources pointing to it. (adjusts tinfoil hat)

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