Comet Collision with Earth on May 25, 2006!!

[AGENDA21]

KEALAKEKUA, Hawaii, April 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Eric Julien, a former French military air traffic controller and senior airport manager, has completed a study of the comet 73P Schwassmann- Wachmann and declared that a fragment is highly likely to impact the Earth on or around May 25, 2006.

Comet Schwassman-Wachmann follows a five-year orbit that crosses the solar system's ecliptic plane. It has followed its five year orbit intact for centuries; but, in 1995, mysteriously fragmented. According to Julien, this is the same year that a crop circle appeared showing the inner solar system with the Earth missing from its orbit. He argues the "Missing Earth" crop circle was a message from higher intelligences warning humanity of the consequences of its destructive nuclear policies. He links this crop circle to May 25, 2006, and identifies the comet Schwassmann-Wachman as the subject of higher intelligence communications.

Using NASA simulations of the comet's path, Julien concludes that impact is likely around May 25 precisely when the comet crosses the Earth's ecliptic plane. While the first fragment will cross at approximately 10 million miles, lagging fragments threaten to collide. While astronomers have stated that the comet poses no direct threat, Julien argues that some fragments are too small to observe. Astronomers have predicted possible meteor showers indicating some cometary debris will enter the atmosphere.

Julien argues that the kinetic energy of even a 'car sized' fragment will impact the Earth with devastating effect. He concludes the May 25 event is tied in to the Bush administration's policy of preemptive use of nuclear weapons against Iran, and the effect of nuclear weapons on the realms of higher intelligences. Regarding its importance, Julien declares: "we have to save lives when we have such information to share with the public". He further claims it important "to preserve all data, historical artifacts and precious material in the event of such a collision." Julien predicts that the comet collision will occur in the Atlantic Ocean between the Equator and the Tropic of Cancer, and generates 200 meter waves. Julien concludes that "each person with this information has to take responsibility to warn potential victims."

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=63973

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20060413/pl_usnw/former_military_air_traffic_controller_claims_comet_collision_with_earth_on_may25_2006104_xml

[Memory Container]

1. Look for signs of 'higher intelligence' and you will find them...

But not on Earth.

[trumad]

2. To the highest degree

[salin]

4. Ya think ?

Dude suggests that this 'collision' is due to Jrs Iran policy - as if the trajectory of a comet would shift and move in space... depending on US policies (that sorta made me chuckle.)

[ClintonTyree]

20. Well, if a highly intelligent society is in control.....

of this then we should be able to determine exactly where this comet will collide with Earth. Somewhere in the direct vicinity of George Bush. If it's his decisions that are the problem then there's only one real place for landfall....right on top of "The Decider". :rofl:

This guy has been rooting around in the medicine cabinet too long. :tinfoilhat:

[Peter Frank]

3. Blah Blah Blah...

Got any real news???

[mahina]

5. Kealakekua? What's he doing, eating pork chops at the Manago?

Sheesh.
For all I know he is right, but the big island address makes it look like he has something to do with the telescopes. But he, um, doesn't.
Kelakekua- what do they grow over there again?

[Seattleman]

14. Pakalolo visions

Hey Mon, de Pakalolo is VERY good this year. Roll another splif eh?

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. I'll preserve Julien's precious material for him

He can send me all his money, and I promise I'll take good care of it.

The sponsor of this news release:

[Xipe Totec]

7. He had me at comet

he lost me at crop circle.

:eyes:

[trotsky]

30. LOL

Nice one. :thumbsup:

[ET Awful]

8. I think this dude has been hanging out in the same volcanoes as

Xenu's trapped alien spirits. :P

Hell, if this guy got together with the Scientologists, they could form a whole new cult :)

[GeorgeGist]

9. :tinfoilhat:

'According to Julien, this is the same year that a crop circle appeared showing the inner solar system with the Earth missing from its orbit.'

[jbnow]

10. You can see it broadcast live (really)

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060418/nytu067.html?.v=47

Public Viewing of Closest Comet to Earth in 20 Years at Slooh.com from 9pm EST

CANARY ISLANDS, Spain, April 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Comet 73P Schwassmann- Wachmann, which has broken up into 19 separate pieces and is heading for a rendezvous with Earth, will be broadcast live from Slooh.com's Canary Island based telescopes every night this week starting at 9pm EST. The first of its kind, Slooh.com broadcasts live celestial events to the viewing public from its powerful telescopes stationed at high altitude at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands, the leading European observatory.

It's actually closer then any in far more then 20 years if you read more about it, but it isn't expected to come near hitting earth. It's a bit less predictable because it unexpectedly broke apart .

We will of course be smashed into again someday but not by any they know of now or that they tell us about. We don't know all the comets that might come near earths orbit and it was volunteer astronomers who watched for them. There is now an official search but few experts feel we are doing enough or devoting enough telescope time.

But not next month.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

11. This guy was an air traffic controller?

Jesus that's frightening.

Hmm... maybe the stress made him crack?

[AussieDave]

12. Sorry - can't make it

I'm re-arranging my sock drawer that day - could we possibly re-schedule ?????

:o

[Dogmudgeon]

13. Say what you want, he makes more sense than Bush

The impactor is going to be about the size of a truck, so says Julien. He expects it raise mega-tsunamis, but I don't think something the size of a truck rates much more than a "1" on the Torino Scale.

Anyway, it sounds like there will be a good chance of a major meteor storm in late May.

The bad news? Bush will still be pResident.

--p!

[Taxloss]

17. If the comet disintegrated

then it's probably mostly ice. There may be a lightshow. Little else.

[Tesha]

22. Klendathu did it! (NT)

[Taxloss]

23. Yeah, I'm cancelling that trip to Buenos Aires. n/t

[Dogmudgeon]

24. That's what I'm hoping for

I loved the Leonid storms.

In 1999 (I think it was 1999), I sat outside with my 88-year-old grandmother watching it. She'd never seen anything like it -- both the '33 and '66 storms were rained out. (A storm gets rained out -- how's that for verbal irony?) I also think this coming autumn's Leonids will produce a mild storm -- under 500/hr, but still pretty good.

There could potentially be a spectacular light show with the breakup of S-W, plus, several of the remaining chunks should attain magnitudes +6 to +3 as small comets.

The University of Armagh usually has good meteor shower predictions, so that will be my next stop.

--p!

[Whoa_Nelly]

15. Will actually be about six million miles away

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/24mar_73p.htm

<snip>
There's no danger of a collision. "Goodness, no," says Yeomans. "The closest fragment will be about six million miles away--or twenty-five times farther than the Moon." That's close without actually being scary.

The flyby is a big deal. "The Hubble Space Telescope will be watching," says Yeomans. "Also, the giant Arecibo radar in Puerto Rico will 'ping' the fragments to determine their shape and spin." Even backyard astronomers will be able to take pictures as the mini-comets file through the constellations Cygnus and Pegasus on May 12, 13 and 14.

Ironically these comets, so nearby, will not be very bright. The largest fragments are expected to glow like 3rd or 4th magnitude stars, only dimly visible to the unaided eye.

[Solon]

21. For a visualization:

OK, couple of things, first, the halos for these comets has been exhaggerated, like a thousand fold or so. Second, the viewpoint is 32,014 km from the Earth, so subtract that from the comet's distance to get distance from Earth, approximately. Also, look at the date, and also note that the data used for these orbiting points may be slightly off, usually due to calculation errors or outdated data.

[Taxloss]

16. Oh no! And Morgan Freeman isn't president yet!

AGENDA21, if this story turns out to be true, I will buy you a drink on 26 May. I promise.

[AGENDA21]

18. Yeah sure you will..

[Taxloss]

19. No, I will.

If civilisation is wiped out on 25 May, I'll buy you a drink.

[dweller]

25. OH MY FREAKIN GOD!!!!1

WE ARE DOOOMED1! SELL!!! SELL EVERYTHING NOW! sELL AND GET OUT NOW!!!!!!!11 FOR THE LOVE OF ...oh wait. This isn't the
SMW thread...

sorry, wrong thread.

dp

[greyl]

26. Complaints should be sent to Yahoo.

Julien argues that the kinetic energy of even a 'car sized' fragment will impact the Earth with devastating effect.

Bzzzzzt! Wrong. Call a fragment like this 3 meters across. It would have a mass of 7 tons, and at an impact velocity of 16 kilometers per second (the speed of the comet as it passes us) the impact energy would be the somewhat respectable equivalent of 450 tons of TNT. That's about 0.02 times the energy released by the Hiroshima atomic bomb.

That may sound like enough to do some damage, but it wouldn't. Ice is not very solid. When a small chunk enters the Earth's atmosphere, the energy of entry causes it to heat rapidly, and it explodes. But it does so while it is still very high over the ground, 50 miles or so. Some estimates are that a chunk of ice or rock a meter across enters the Earth's atmosphere once a month! Yet we don't even notice. While something 3 meters across would make a bigger bang (27 times as big, in fact*), it's still pretty small -- just half the Hiroshima bomb. That's big enough to see, but still too high up to have any real effect on the ground. No sound, no worries, and certainly no "devastating effect".

http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/news/

Also, the closest approach will be on May 14, not 25.

[muriel_volestrangler]

34. Yeah - when did Yahoo start reproducing everyone's PR releases?

By putting it in their 'news' section, they add a bit of (spurious) credibility.

[SidDithers]

27. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing...

but I especially liked the bit about the Earth-less crop circle.

Sid

[newportdadde]

28. Towel in hand. *lifts up thumb* get me outta here.

[katamaran]

29. Crap, I have an orthodontist appointment that day.

Impending doom reminded me of that...

[no_hypocrisy]

31. Well, here's divine intervention. It must be God finding the only way

to stop * from striking Iran with nukular weapons. Desperate times demand desperate measures. And he'd have to accept it as this would be the "higher Father's" decision. (Dripping Sarcasm, and Dark Irony)

[dogday]

32. So they moved you to the Sept11 forum

what the hell has this to do with 9-11.. Oh yeah, this is where the freaky-deekies hang out isn't it?

[muriel_volestrangler]

33. Bit of a shame, isn't it?

While I'm no fan of most theories in this forum, this nonsense is far beyond anything any DUer has ever put forward. The Lounge is the suitable place for it, seeing as its comedy.

[benburch]

36. To be Comedy...

...it would have to be actually FUNNY.

This isn't.

[New Earth]

39. I've asked this before but no one replied

Has anyone ever formally complained to the admins about this? It really is offensive. Pretty ridiculous if you ask me. This is a serious minded forum for the most part and every day these 9/11 "conspiracy theories" are ending up not to be "theories".

Why do threads like this get dumped in here? PUT THEM IN THE LOUNGE

sheesh

[Random_Australian]

42. They're a bit serious for the Lounge, I think. (sometimes)

[benburch]

35. I just checked my calendar...

and it is not April first.

But still, you cannot be SERIOUS? Nobody could possibly be SERIOUS about this?

[leftofthedial]

37. plus, May 25 is the 60th anniversary of

Shirley MacLaine's menarche.

[New Earth]

38. can someone please explain to me

what this has to do with 9/11 :shrug: :eyes:

[MervinFerd]

43. It was actually a comet fragment that hit the WTC and Pentagon.

Explains why there were no planes.

[rman]

40. i stopped reading at "cropcircle"

[HamdenRice]

41. What does this have to do with 9/11? nt

[MervinFerd]

44. It's a silly theory. Fits perfectly.