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The End Is Nigh
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In London - a long time ago. There was a 'sandwich' man who continually walked up & down Oxford street bearing a sign; 'The End of the World is Nigh'
Will he yet be proved to be prophetic?
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Will he yet be proved to be prophetic?
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"The ESA has warned of a “mountain in the sky” asteroid which is plunging towards the Blue Planet.
Didymos 65803 is a binary asteroid which has been classified as a potential hazard by NASA – meaning it could crash into Earth in the future.
The 775-metre space rock is orbited by a smaller 160-metre-wide moon and has the potential to wipe out a city, according to calculations.
In November, European space ministers are set to back the HERA project – humanity’s first mission to orbit the double asteroid and dispatch two smaller drones – named CubeSats – in an attempt to figure out how to deflect it."
However a look at the website of the ESA shows Didymos 65803 poses no threat whatsoever to the Earth and won't come closer to it than a distance of around 10 million kilometres. The purpose of the mission is to learn more about a class of asteroids which could pose a threat to the Earth if one of them was ever to impact with our planet, rather to to examine a particular asteroid which actually poses a threat (because Didymos 65803 most definitely doesn't!)
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"The ESA has warned of a “mountain in the sky” asteroid which is plunging towards the Blue Planet.
Didymos 65803 is a binary asteroid which has been classified as a potential hazard by NASA – meaning it could crash into Earth in the future.
The 775-metre space rock is orbited by a smaller 160-metre-wide moon and has the potential to wipe out a city, according to calculations.
In November, European space ministers are set to back the HERA project – humanity’s first mission to orbit the double asteroid and dispatch two smaller drones – named CubeSats – in an attempt to figure out how to deflect it."
However a look at the website of the ESA shows Didymos 65803 poses no threat whatsoever to the Earth and won't come closer to it than a distance of around 10 million kilometres. The purpose of the mission is to learn more about a class of asteroids which could pose a threat to the Earth if one of them was ever to impact with our planet, rather to to examine a particular asteroid which actually poses a threat (because Didymos 65803 most definitely doesn't!)
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There was also this man, Stanley Green, whom I saw many times in Oxford Street in the Seventies. He made more sense.
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If there have been five previous "extinction events" they have been designed to prevent a particular species from causing too much damage. If man-made "climate change" (or whatever it's currently called) is such a sixth event its purpose will be precisely the same. Homo Sapiens has caused considerable damage in its short time on Earth and it will eventually be wiped out by one means or another. Our faffing about with windmills and other insignificant nonsenses will make no difference.
We already know for certain what 'The End ' will be !
Our 'Sun'is just a very ordinary star ! It will use up it's store of Hydrogen and start to burn Helium ! Due to the Laws of Physics this must mean that The Sun becomes a LOT bigger ! It will get so big that Earth will be inside the enlarged Sun ! But don't worry yet ! This will not even start to happen for at least another 100 Million Years !!!
Our 'Sun'is just a very ordinary star ! It will use up it's store of Hydrogen and start to burn Helium ! Due to the Laws of Physics this must mean that The Sun becomes a LOT bigger ! It will get so big that Earth will be inside the enlarged Sun ! But don't worry yet ! This will not even start to happen for at least another 100 Million Years !!!