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Comment: Etymology of 'disaster':
1590s, from M.Fr. désastre (1560s), from It. disastro "ill-starred," from dis-, here merely pejorative (see dis-) + astro "star, planet," from L. astrum, from Gk. astron (see star). The sense is astrological, of a calamity blamed on an unfavorable position of a planet....and before astronomy was 'adjusted' to become the science of the study of planets, it was concerned with the study of comets and when they would return...
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Wouldn't make the best movie. Shallow Impact - The Big Apple is about to get some bruising on its peel. In the movie, the event would be preceded by an hour of buildup and character development, some scientist trying to warn everybody but nobody will listen to him because he's dissheveled and divorced and useless, then when it finally arrives, it's drawn out from the few seconds it would actually take to be a 15 minute long slow motion, glass flying, music montage of destruction where maybe some old people had heart attacks but mostly people were just like, "Oh my!" -- fear of God looks, a shot of a cross hanging on a cab driver's rear view mirror, some skyscrapers explode, glass raining down on crowds. Then half an hour of tinnitus, quiet shock and struggle, turning slowly into helping each other, making sure everybody is ok, and maybe some people got killed but we all thought they were jerks after the first hour anyways, all the good people miraulously survive, then that night they all party in Times Square.The scientist is still alone and nobody likes him, his ex wife is still with that personal trainer, but now he knows he was right so he can feel good about himself for one day before going back to no job or social skills tomorrow. But hey it was a B movie anyways. They leave it open for a possible sequel, "Actual Impact"
4 Chr***t's Sake-What side Windows?
For Chr***t's Sake! It's simple!
Do a SIMPLE (HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE LEVEL) study of WHICH SIDES OF WHICH BUILDINGS' WINDOWS WERE DAMAGED??!!
The prior passage of the (most likely related) asteroid/meteroid mere and meager hours* before the hit by this quite likely related straggler will tell us what its - this baby meteor turned meterorite - TRUE trajectory was and whether it truly was - as nearly astronomically impossibly claimed - supposedly "unrelated" to that immediately preceding passage of its almost certainly 'mother'-lode comet/asteroid/et alia. Where is SHE NOW???
How hard is that to do? The damage pics and witnesses surely can tell if it came from the same direction (and I'd damn sure bet it did.)
R.C.
*In astronomical terms of 'time', a space of time infinitely less that the relative 'blink of an eye.'
RC
For Chr***t's Sake! It's simple!
Do a SIMPLE (HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE LEVEL) study of WHICH SIDES OF WHICH BUILDINGS' WINDOWS WERE DAMAGED??!!
The prior passage of the (most likely related) asteroid/meteroid mere and meager hours* before the hit by this quite likely related straggler will tell us what its - this baby meteor turned meterorite - TRUE trajectory was and whether it truly was - as nearly astronomically impossibly claimed - supposedly "unrelated" to that immediately preceding passage of its almost certainly 'mother'-lode comet/asteroid/et alia. Where is SHE NOW???
How hard is that to do? The damage pics and witnesses surely can tell if it came from the same direction (and I'd damn sure bet it did.)
R.C.
*In astronomical terms of 'time', a space of time infinitely less that the relative 'blink of an eye.'
RC
What is not widely appreciated is that there is no (known) reason why this meteor could not have passed over New York City instead of a relatively sparsely populated area of the Russian Siberia. If it had, the damage to the city and the number of casualties would have been multiplied by a factor of 1,000. This would have gotten people's attention.