Worried About Comet Elenin? FAQs from Ian Musgrave

Originally posted by Openeye
reply to post by alex1

 

Very very good article. Maybe this will stop people from posting Elenin topics, and scaring my PCT friends to death...probably not

Science does work sometimes people

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There's always going to be something that scares people. We are both blessed and cursed to be able to share information on events, both cosmic and earthly, so quickly. Imagine what it was like for my forefathers, who had none of that.

In the winter of 1811/1812 we experienced the New Madrid Quake. In Sparta (my hometown) the first sign something was amiss was the local river catching on fire. The flames were blue white. (Local geologists now say it is because we have methane wells in the area). The fire and steam and sulfur started shooting out of the ground. The ground began to shake. Whole islands moved. Land sank. (And we are 600 miles east of Memphis, TN). To top it all off, there was a huge showy meteor shower AND a comet shortly thereafter.

At what point do you think you'd lose your cool? When the ground started trembling? When the river burned? When the sky literally seemed to be falling?

Everyone ran out into the streets praying for salvation because after all this they were convinced the world was at its end, with the legendary exception of one old man who said the meteor and comet was a sign of war to come and that "God ain't through with us yet.". I guess of all the predictions supposedly made during those few months, his was the most accurate. The War of 1812 started soon after.

The point I'm trying to make is, whether it's a comet, an asteroid, an earthquake, a volcano or even climate change, humans are always going to be afraid of a future they can't understand. The average person doesn't understand meteorology or physics. They're going to go by what they hear and see in the media. The media hypes everything to the nth degree and you always have your attention mongers making it worse.

All my forefathers had was the Bible and that was enough to convince most of them the end had come.

If it isn't comet Elenin, it will be something else in the near future, and no matter how many scientific articles are presented to the contrary, ordinary people will most likely choose to believe what they understand and think they know. That doesn't make them ignorant. It makes them normal. People who know better, but still decide to spread misinformation...those people are the ignorant ones.

i 'm going to quote someone on this site Tom Sharp he made a good comment and when i was reading this interview this what i got in mind,everyone gives his point of view and it's not because someone told me everything is normal that I put all my faith in him and yes i think this Elenin is going to make big trouble even if Ian musgrave think otherwise.

Ian,
Why don't you tell everybody how you calculate the distance to an object in space? Tell them you use redshift even though quasar evidence shows redshift cannot determine distance. Tell them you are using a failed theory. Tell them the truth. Your work is meaningless now. All that astronomy has calculated may be wrong. Why don't you tell them how you and Mr. Elenin determine the size of an object? You use the distance you calculate using redshift, then you apply a standard candle. So since your distance is wrong your size is wrong. Tell them the truth and not a politically correct lie. Tell them you assume that all space objects have the same light propagating properties. Tell them how Nasa has photographed a comet nucleus and it appears burnt black with gouges and pits in it. Tell them Nasa discovered that comets are not made of ice and dust. Explain the earthquakes matching ELenin planetary/solar alignments. The data is real unlike the above calculations that are based on phony assumptions. I know it must be difficult to accept that your entire career and all that has been done in your field is based on a theory that is obviously flawed. That's a shame. You are now in the same position as those who thought the world was flat. They got over it. Your turn.

now i don't understand why we have this big debate about this rock...seriously what can we do? some one have an answer about what can we do if this rock make big trouble, no one has a clue, if realy this rock will make damages i will understand nasa and the governement not telling the true,what they can real do ?people are like monkeys they just hear the sound of thunder they all shout in the same time so imagine when they will see the light... i think it's beyond our imagination, if this stone do not touch the ground while life goes on, and if the opposite so we'll see our own extinction without doing anything ..just as usale fighting before ...