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Excitement Builds as Comet Approaches Earth for First Time in About 50,000 Years
Legal Insurrection ^ | Friday, January 6, 2023 at 09:00am | by Leslie Eastman

Posted on 01/06/2023 9:08:32 AM PST by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger

The only thing we need to know... Will it hit us?

If not, then it’s all good. If it is going to hit us... Just keep it to yourselfs.


41 posted on 01/06/2023 10:07:22 AM PST by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Cowman
Original color... And maybe even the original tires.


42 posted on 01/06/2023 10:12:00 AM PST by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: JBW1949

I was thinking the same sort of thing because of this little clue:
“C/2022 E3 (ZTF) is a long-period comet believed to come from the Oort Cloud, the most distant region of Earth’s solar system and consisting of icy chunks of space debris. The comet was discovered a year ago, and scientists have been studying it since.

We don’t have an estimate for the furthest it will get from the Earth yet — estimates vary — but if it does return it won’t be for at least 50,000 years,” [Jessica Lee, an astronomer with the Royal Observatory”

Could this be the very first solar visit since being jostled loose from the Oort Cloud? In fact, technically, Ms Lee only talked about if it returns in 50k yrs, not that it was here 50k yrs ago...
That would seem to also fit with the 50k yr visit interval calculations...


43 posted on 01/06/2023 10:12:53 AM PST by trfree98 (Xiden: Please allow me to introduce myself I'm a man of wealth and taste... )
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To: JBW1949
If they just “discovered” this comet, how do they know it came by here 50,000 years ago?

If you take the trouble to learn a little bit about orbital mechanics, you'll answer your own question.

44 posted on 01/06/2023 10:15:04 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Red Badger

“often viewed as Bad Omens “.... 2023 begins. Yeah, wouldn’t surprise me at all. We already have a cosmic clown show running the country.


45 posted on 01/06/2023 10:18:10 AM PST by sjmjax
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To: Red Badger
While the comet is too dim to see without a telescope, it should be visible to the naked eye when it is roughly 26 million miles away.

WTF...Editor...Editor!!!

46 posted on 01/06/2023 10:28:55 AM PST by pfflier
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To: jerod

I may be interested. Does the green shag carpet and 8 track come with it?


47 posted on 01/06/2023 10:31:03 AM PST by Cowman
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To: OneVike

The orbit is just physics.

The last time it was here, Neanderthals were on earth.

Neanderthals had eyes and could see the stars at night.

Therefore, the last time it was here, Neanderthals looked at the sky, at night, and saw it.


48 posted on 01/06/2023 10:31:31 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: Cowman

V8^99999.................


49 posted on 01/06/2023 10:31:54 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Trump’s fault.


50 posted on 01/06/2023 10:39:29 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: dfwgator

“Daddy would have gotten us Uzis.”

L


51 posted on 01/06/2023 10:42:08 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Red Badger

Yet, by their calculations, they state that the moon is moving away from the earth. Using their own calculations the moon is currently moving 3.8 cm away from the Earth every year.

Calculating how old they claim the earth is, 4.5 Billion years, earths gravitation would have been too strong for the moon to get where it is today.

Stated differently, the moon should have been pulled into earth and crashed against at a minimum of 2.25 billion years ago, thus we would be a dead planet long before we could have reached the age of 4.5 billion years.

Taking those calculations into consideration, the earth would never have been able to evolve to where it is due to the extreme gravitational flux between earth and the moon.

Earth needed to have the moon exactly where it is, or close, long before just so the tides would be able to properly create the atmosphere earth needed to crate life.

One cannot take just a part of their calculations and ignore the rest. Either they are right on them or they are wrong.

Hey, I used their calculations, not mine.

Thus Everything was created by GOD, and thus the comment could not even exist until God created it.


52 posted on 01/06/2023 10:42:26 AM PST by OneVike ( Just another Christian waiting ato go home)
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To: dfwgator

Off to meet hale-bopp comet or was it the spaceship following it. I have this sudden edge to buy a track suit and some air Jordan’s. Somehow I also have my eyes on this cool purple blanket. Got to run, the koolaid is ready.


53 posted on 01/06/2023 10:45:21 AM PST by wgmalabama (Censored!)
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To: KobraKai

They still are around.


54 posted on 01/06/2023 10:47:24 AM PST by seabeeson
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To: dfwgator

https://www.heavensgate.com/

Join a members group near you.


55 posted on 01/06/2023 10:48:56 AM PST by wgmalabama (Censored!)
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To: Red Badger

“ set to pass by Earth for the first time since Neanderthals existed 50,000 years ago.”

I’m pretty sure Neanderthals are still among us. Have you seen the freaks in charge of DC?


56 posted on 01/06/2023 11:25:13 AM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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57 posted on 01/06/2023 11:56:27 AM PST by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Ancesthntr
UND What am I going to get out of this alleged “deal”

And to think I opened a fresh can of AJAX yoost yesterday

58 posted on 01/06/2023 12:10:40 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: NorthMountain

I just turned 74 years old...I’m too old to care about some comet...I really don’t give damn about orbital mechanics...I really don’t care if the comet came by 50 or 50,000 years ago...


59 posted on 01/06/2023 12:43:35 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: JBW1949

< shrug >
You asked ...


60 posted on 01/06/2023 12:50:36 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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