In this new video from Big Think, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson says he's almost embarrassed for our species that it takes a warning shot across our bow before legislators take seriously the warning they've been getting from astronomers that its a matter of when not if Earth will get smacked by an asteroid.
"But it took an actual meteor over Russia exploding with 25 times the power of the atom bomb in Hiroshima to convince people that maybe we should start doing something about it."
Comment: We understand his frustration! SOTT.net has been warning people about this for years. The latest research indicates that it's not the multi-million-year larger space rocks that we need to be concerned about, but the swarms of smaller objects that wreak havoc on human civilizations far more often than people realise...
Celestial Intentions: Comets and the Horns of Moses
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they'll never get it
The pols and legislators will never get it, even with a shot across the bow.
They will sweep the incident away with their Risk Management, patting themselves on the back that it will be 1,000's of years or more before another one hits. They lack the ability to connect the dots, unless it means more money in thier treasure chests.
Therefore, I find it unreasonable to expect that pols and legsilators could grasp that current solar-system conditions are ripe for cosmic shooting gallery barrages.
The pols and legislators will never get it, even with a shot across the bow.
They will sweep the incident away with their Risk Management, patting themselves on the back that it will be 1,000's of years or more before another one hits. They lack the ability to connect the dots, unless it means more money in thier treasure chests.
Therefore, I find it unreasonable to expect that pols and legsilators could grasp that current solar-system conditions are ripe for cosmic shooting gallery barrages.
...but we need help
Just like the mammals were trodden under foot by the dinosaurs, so we are told, and it was not until an impact changed the environment sufficiently that the dinosaurs were killed off and mammals began to thrive "in a new heaven and new earth", how are the disadvantaged poor of the world to free themselves from the corporate giants that oppress them? Revelation's telling brings in "Wormwood", smoking like an incense burner, and great earthquakes follow. It does not require mankind to remove Satan's minion, it does it for them.
All that is required of them is to keep the faith and no further hardships will be inflicted upon them.
Just like the mammals were trodden under foot by the dinosaurs, so we are told, and it was not until an impact changed the environment sufficiently that the dinosaurs were killed off and mammals began to thrive "in a new heaven and new earth", how are the disadvantaged poor of the world to free themselves from the corporate giants that oppress them? Revelation's telling brings in "Wormwood", smoking like an incense burner, and great earthquakes follow. It does not require mankind to remove Satan's minion, it does it for them.
All that is required of them is to keep the faith and no further hardships will be inflicted upon them.
alien warning shot across our bow
Apparently, at least one mainstream astronomer 'got the message':
We Live in a Cosmic Shooting Gallery - March 13, 2013
In this new video from Big Think, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson says he’s almost embarrassed for our species that it takes a warning shot across our bow before legislators take seriously the advice they’ve been receiving from astronomers about getting serious about asteroid detection and deflection; that it’s a matter of when not if Earth will get smacked by an asteroid. "But it took an actual meteor over Russia exploding with 25 times the power of the atom bomb in Hiroshima to convince people that maybe we should start doing something about it."
And that's exactly what the Chelyabinsk meteor was, an alien warning shot across our bow, and a non lethal one at that.
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Apparently, at least one mainstream astronomer 'got the message':
We Live in a Cosmic Shooting Gallery - March 13, 2013
In this new video from Big Think, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson says he’s almost embarrassed for our species that it takes a warning shot across our bow before legislators take seriously the advice they’ve been receiving from astronomers about getting serious about asteroid detection and deflection; that it’s a matter of when not if Earth will get smacked by an asteroid. "But it took an actual meteor over Russia exploding with 25 times the power of the atom bomb in Hiroshima to convince people that maybe we should start doing something about it."
And that's exactly what the Chelyabinsk meteor was, an alien warning shot across our bow, and a non lethal one at that.
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No, the Russian meteor/comet fragment was not shot down/fired at us by any agency, terrestrial or otherwise. Like Tyson says, it's a Cosmic Turkey Shoot, and we're the turkey.
Why now?
Why are these things happening now?
Globalistic greed-driven thirst for more, more, more.
More power, more vainglorious wars, more fabulous holdings, etc.
Everything that man should not be doing is being done, and everything man should be doing is brushed aside. Precious little, if any, thought is given to the consequences of actions.
The cosmos, not under the control of man, is going to wipe the slate clean. Unless... man in general comes to the realization that he is not going to play God and get away with it, and act accordingly.
The leadership of the world, by and large, is no better than unruly children in serious need of correction.
Cosmic spankings are coming. Big spankings.
Why are these things happening now?
Globalistic greed-driven thirst for more, more, more.
More power, more vainglorious wars, more fabulous holdings, etc.
Everything that man should not be doing is being done, and everything man should be doing is brushed aside. Precious little, if any, thought is given to the consequences of actions.
The cosmos, not under the control of man, is going to wipe the slate clean. Unless... man in general comes to the realization that he is not going to play God and get away with it, and act accordingly.
The leadership of the world, by and large, is no better than unruly children in serious need of correction.
Cosmic spankings are coming. Big spankings.
The Black Headed Meteor
And I have been warning people about this since 1985 when I and others first saw the monster. What I find is that all the "experts" i.e. those trained to believe chose belief, especially those supposedly concerned or even involved in detecting asteroids/NEOs do not want to know. They do not even believe in their own field!
I suspect it is now too late - and probably always was - to prevent the coming apocalypse. Even SOTT which routinely publishes photographs of aircraft contrails as "meteors" or "comets" does not want to know and have refused an article from myself about this mega-asteroid which has brushed the Earth's atmosphere at least twice since 1985. This despite the fact that I am a doctor of physics with an astrophysics specialism.
I grant you that I am unfortunate to have seen this stony asteroid and I rather wish that I had not because then I wouldn't have felt the responsibility to have to try and save the world.
The experts of course with their massive budgets and expensive equipment regularly fail to detect dangerous NEOs and they are unlikely to detect this one until the blast waves wrench their telescopes and radar systems from the ground. About the only time it is not sunwards is when it is in very close proximity to the Earth and can only easily be detected by Mk1 eyeball. At such rare times, detection is simple and very, very scary.
Good luck to those few unlucky enough to survive the blast waves, heat and tidal waves. Enjoy the glaciation, it will be with you for a long time.
Time is running out.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED
And I have been warning people about this since 1985 when I and others first saw the monster. What I find is that all the "experts" i.e. those trained to believe chose belief, especially those supposedly concerned or even involved in detecting asteroids/NEOs do not want to know. They do not even believe in their own field!
I suspect it is now too late - and probably always was - to prevent the coming apocalypse. Even SOTT which routinely publishes photographs of aircraft contrails as "meteors" or "comets" does not want to know and have refused an article from myself about this mega-asteroid which has brushed the Earth's atmosphere at least twice since 1985. This despite the fact that I am a doctor of physics with an astrophysics specialism.
I grant you that I am unfortunate to have seen this stony asteroid and I rather wish that I had not because then I wouldn't have felt the responsibility to have to try and save the world.
The experts of course with their massive budgets and expensive equipment regularly fail to detect dangerous NEOs and they are unlikely to detect this one until the blast waves wrench their telescopes and radar systems from the ground. About the only time it is not sunwards is when it is in very close proximity to the Earth and can only easily be detected by Mk1 eyeball. At such rare times, detection is simple and very, very scary.
Good luck to those few unlucky enough to survive the blast waves, heat and tidal waves. Enjoy the glaciation, it will be with you for a long time.
Time is running out.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED
I'm curious carefix- you mention "time is running out". What is estimated time frame for this event?
Thanks for the enlightenment
I have reinforced my roof and now walk around with a tin hat and a pyramid over my shoulder.
THAT should protect me from any asteroid the size of Mount Everest!!!!
Forewarned is forearmed . . .
I have reinforced my roof and now walk around with a tin hat and a pyramid over my shoulder.
THAT should protect me from any asteroid the size of Mount Everest!!!!
Forewarned is forearmed . . .
Seems
like we do live in a cosmic shooting gallery. I had difficulty accepting that fact but after what happened in Russia I'm now convinced.
like we do live in a cosmic shooting gallery. I had difficulty accepting that fact but after what happened in Russia I'm now convinced.
We live in a cosmic shooting gallery
In this new video from Big Think, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson says he's almost embarrassed for our species that it takes a warning shot across our bow before legislators take seriously the...