The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith
Posted on 03/10/2008 2:09:59 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
‘Death Star’ Gamma-Ray Gun Pointed Straight at Earth
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Strange Space Pinwheels Spotted
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Uh, okay.
I’m calling “BS” on this one.
The supernova “beam” is a one-off event.
There are two, and only two, possiblities about that beam.
Either it is somehow miraculously focused and narrow like a laser beam (really about that focused, and that narrow), or else it’s harmless.
It really cannot be both.
If it’s focused like a beam so miraculously that it can travel 8000 years (four times the length of time since Jesus was nailed onto that cross) across space at the speed of light in a tiny little beam the width probably of our solar system - without losing its energy - the odds that beam is at that very moment pointing *exactly* right at us - are zero.
Zero!
This is total bull.
(imho)
“Melott and others have speculated that gamma ray bursts might have caused mass extinctions on Earth. But when it comes to whether this pinwheel might pose a danger to us, “I would worry a lot more about global warming,” Melott said.”
well that’s a silly thing to say.
Global warming doesn’t cause mass extinction with no warning.
This gamma ray burst business is much scarier than global warning - and there’s no running - no hiding - no warning whatsoever.
Why would they worry more about gradual warming that occurs - what? maybe 2 degrees over 5 decades?
I’ll put the death star ahead of global warming on my bogeyman list.
“Since the initial blast would travel at the speed of light, there would be no warning of its arrival.”
You can’t “see” it coming - the light we see from the stars is actually hundreds - thousands years old.
Some of the stars we “see” aren’t even there anymore - but they were there a hundred years ago - it just took that long for the light to reach our eyes.
Same thing here - we cannot “see” this thing coming until the rays are directly on us.
No wonder there have been so many prescient GW deniers!!!
What I was pointing out was the sentence being so poorly written. What difference will it make how fast or slow it would hit us? :)
oh ok!!
nevermind!
“What difference will it make how fast or slow it would hit us? :)”
well sure...it wouldn’t make any difference would it?
Ok..I’ll shut up and go to bed now :)
Everything was AOK, until this.
“the recent human-caused thinning of the ozone layer, creating “holes” over the polar regions, have only been depletions of about 3 to 4 percent, he explained.”
The ozone layer changes in correspondence to the output of the Sun, and the interaction between the atmosphere, the solar winds, and the Magnetic Pole Flux (N or S).
It is what generates the ozone. We don’t.
Tremendous amounts of power enter at the N and S poles and are the source of the energy that heats our planet and allows it to ‘grow’. Ozone is given off at the entry points.
Just like the brushes do on an electric motor.
The field can be seen. It is called the Aurora.
The holes have been there before. We just weren’t capable of monitoring it back then. They open and close dependent on energy passage. Too much, they close and limit the juice hitting the armature of the Earth.
Too little, they open the throttle up and suck in the rays.
Thank God, the holes occur in the one place under which no one really lives.
“Same thing here - we cannot “see” this thing coming until the rays are directly on us.”
That’s not a light at the end of the tunnel, it’s a freight train headed your way.
Oh no, don’t look at it that way.
I just want to know what the writer might think was a way to get advance warning. Would I have time to run and get bread and milk?
Sometimes I think it already arrived.
Is that a requirement for speculating about catastrophe?
I had better start stocking up on emergency supplies!
Mark
” Would I have time to run and get bread and milk?”
Do tin foil hats protect us against deadly gamma rays?
Maybe we’ll just have to start wearing those those things 24/7 - just in case.
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds is a 1964 play written by Paul Zindel, a playwright and science teacher. (Many of his works focus on science or youth.)
The play was the 1971 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Obie Award, and the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award. The play’s world premiere was staged in 1964 at the Alley Theatre in Houston, after which it premiered in New York City Off Broadway.
It was adapted into a 1972 film directed by Paul Newman and starring his wife Joanne Woodward, daughter Elinor (stage name Nell Potts), and Roberta Wallach, daughter of Eli Wallach.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Effect_of_Gamma_Rays_on_Man-in-the-Moon_Marigolds
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