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Nope. Even some huge 25x150 binoculars, it's too dim to see and would be less than 1/2000th the total field of view in size.
Originally posted by Violater1
Tomorrow it's supposed to be clear and 37 degrees here at Wright-Patt AFB. If I look toward Orion with my Nikon Binoculars, will I be able to see it?
But I have a lot of questions. The alignments with Elenin that produced the three earthquakes, supposedly, were not Elenin, Sun, Earth, but had the earth in the middle, so how does that produce an earthquake? And we are told this comet is small and that if it weren't for the fact that it is named Elenin nobody would notice or care about it.
It will be perfect, because this comet will probably drop a lot of meteors
Originally posted by stereologist
reply to post by truthteller07
But I have a lot of questions. The alignments with Elenin that produced the three earthquakes, supposedly, were not Elenin, Sun, Earth, but had the earth in the middle, so how does that produce an earthquake? And we are told this comet is small and that if it weren't for the fact that it is named Elenin nobody would notice or care about it.
The Moon which is quite large compared to any comet and also much closer than any comet has been is correlated only with a few rare types of low magnitude earthquakes.
Also, any 3 points in space can be made to look like they are aligned when shown in a 2d projection. Just get the right viewpoint and voila, a fake alignment is shown as was done here. The alignment claim is a hoax.
It will be perfect, because this comet will probably drop a lot of meteors
Comets don't drop meteors. We only see the meteors if we pass through the path a comet took. Since we are not on such a path it means that there will be no meteors.
I fail to see how wild speculation is somehow superior the systematic process of refinement science offers us. Elenin's orbit is well known at this point, thanks to the progressive refinement of our knowledge of orbital mechanics going all the way back to Copernicus.
Originally posted by Helious
Meh, you are profoundly wrong in assuming that you, equipped with flawed knowledge afforded to you by flawed science can predict all workings in the universe with no deviation.
It's ironic that someone complaining about flawed knowledge offers up flawed history as example.
Originally posted by Helious
You were probably that guy running around in Spain yelling to burn the round earthers at the stake cause you just couldn't take any more of the "round earth" talk from the nut jobs.
Originally posted by nataylor
I fail to see how wild speculation is somehow superior the systematic process of refinement science offers us. Elenin's orbit is well known at this point, thanks to the progressive refinement of our knowledge of orbital mechanics going all the way back to Copernicus.
Originally posted by Helious
Meh, you are profoundly wrong in assuming that you, equipped with flawed knowledge afforded to you by flawed science can predict all workings in the universe with no deviation.
It's ironic that someone complaining about flawed knowledge offers up flawed history as example.
Originally posted by Helious
You were probably that guy running around in Spain yelling to burn the round earthers at the stake cause you just couldn't take any more of the "round earth" talk from the nut jobs.
where are "we" hearing these things? Certainly not from astronomers.
Originally posted by truthteller07
Interesting. The media is saying something about the comet having a "toxic tail?" And we hear that it has gone through the asteroid belt and that it is big enough to catch some debris to drag along with it.
I'm sure there are things on YouTube that say many things. What do actual scientists say? No comet has a nucleus as big as a planet.
Comet NEAT going by in 2003 was supposed to have a huge core. There are things on YouTube that say the core was as big as planet Mercury.
They do not attract debris for a couple reasons. First, they are relatively small and lack the gravity needed to collect debris. Second, due to their highly eliptical orbits, comets that pass through the asteroid belt do so at very significant relative speeds. Any significant debris simply could not be dragged along by such a weak gravitational field moving at such speed.
How is it that comets do not have meteors, or debris, they would drag behind them? I think these comets are more substantial than we've been led to believe.
I try to with every post. Especially the kind of ignorance that would make someone discount all of science due to profound misunderstandings of its processes and results.
Originally posted by Helious
Deny ignorance sometimes.
Originally posted by nataylor
I try to with every post. Especially the kind of ignorance that would make someone discount all of science due to profound misunderstandings of its processes and results.
Originally posted by Helious
Deny ignorance sometimes.
Meh, you are profoundly wrong in assuming that you, equipped with flawed knowledge afforded to you by flawed science can predict all workings in the universe with no deviation.
You were probably that guy running around in Spain yelling to burn the round earthers at the stake cause you just couldn't take any more of the "round earth" talk from the nut jobs.
Interesting. The media is saying something about the comet having a "toxic tail?" And we hear that it has gone through the asteroid belt and that it is big enough to catch some debris to drag along with it.
How is it that comets do not have meteors, or debris, they would drag behind them? I think these comets are more substantial than we've been led to believe.
I'm not sure what you mean by faking an alignment,
Ah, the easiest post of the day to lay waste too. The difference is I have nothing to defend as I, in my statements have made no claim.
Your position is that your knowledge about space and whats in it and how it behaves has all come from a controlled source, one that has been found to be profoundly flawed time after time after time throughout history every time we find something that doesn't fit into the current idea.
Science is good for mankind, it's a working knowledge and it has progressed us greatly but it is almost negligently criminal for anyone to state that there personal knowledge from government controlled media is true and present it as fact, that is just blatantly ignoring 1000 years of history.
Pick up a history book instead of a MSM science one and see what they hid in the past, see what the burned people at the stake for because they didn't want people to know and for gods sake........... Deny ignorance sometimes.
Trust me bud, I know more about science than you most likely.
I'm well aware of the process of science. What science offers us is the best possible description and explanation of the natural world. It is that very process of change, review, and rethinking that gives science its strength.
Originally posted by Helious
I unlike you have conceded that reality is a day to day affair and most of what we know and consider as scientific fact eventual changes as new circumstance emerge.
We've got a pretty good sample size on comets, and orbital mechanics in general.
Originally posted by Helious
I am not discounting science though because it is an important part of who and what we are and it has in a way, made us who we are today. I just think it is irresponsible to make certain jumps within the genera without having a sample size.
Science is about evidence. What evidence is there that this is anything but a regular old comet? Scientists are more than willing to look at new evidence. They love to prove each other wrong. That's what the process of science is. It's that form of "survival of the fittest" that lets the explanations science offers rise to the top. That's why we can say at any given point that that the explanations science offers are the best possible.
Originally posted by Helious
I just wish you book heads could concede for one minute there may be something at work we can not accurately predict.
Consider for a minute that with all our knowledge combined about how big the Universe actually is, we have almost 0 knowledge about our OWN solar system.
Let's start with documention for these claims. I'd like to see some documentation that shows the diameter of a comet nucleus can be determined from SOHO imagery, or that the orbit of a comet's nucleus has ever been appreciably altered by any kind of solar particle event.
Originally posted by truthteller07
How about some documentation for all these claims?
I just don't believe that comets are all tiny little non-entities, dirty snowballs, with no gravity. The thing that came by in 2003, shown on SOHO, was huge, big enough to attract a huge solar explosion from the sun, which knocked the comet off its orbit.