Should I be Scared?

[chuck4842]

My new Goddess misunderstood my drunken prayers, she missed and hit Japan.

 

[dlorde]

I'm stocking up on baked beans and mashed potato powder while there's still time - when that comet hits, I'll be protected from the shockwave in a bathtub full of baked beans'n'mash...

 

[Jack by the hedge]

My new Goddess misunderstood my drunken prayers, she missed and hit Japan.

I must say, you managed to stay drunk and praying for an impressively long time.

She got the comet bit wrong too, I note.

 

[Andrew Wiggin]

...hitting the Earth with the force of a billion H-bombs.

One angry chihuahua!

Yo quiero gotterdamerung.

 

[CapelDodger]

I'm trying to find where I read that....anyways I like you're translation mo' better and may have found my true calling, and new, to me anyway 'cause I didn't know the ancients were familiar with beer, religion. Mesopotamian same as Sumerian?

Beer and religion are two of HomSap's earliest inventions, although you might regard the beer as more of a soup than a beverage (hence the straw the Goddess, blessings be on her, is using). Beer was, from early on in Egypt and Mesopotamia, an important part of the common diet. In my case it still is.

 

[Just Wonderful]

There's a bunch of sites posting about this comet that an amateur discovered, with an amateur scope, from Russia with the last name of Elenin. What scares me is ELE is a term used in FEMA documents meaning extinction level event, and nin the female goddess(to me , mother earth). Anyway it looks like it won't be long before we get a better night show of a comet than Hale-bopp, reported in news a year before the event.

one example http://reinep.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/comet-elenin-could-hit-earth/

Sound like more astrological garbage.
This quote from the article says it all:
"Comet Elenin Could Hit Earth. This is a possibility because of the very unstable predictions of the Comet."

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

I'm excited. Could be we'll have a great sky show with this comet sometime in the Fall.

Bright Prospects for Comet Elenin

It's still early, and the calculated orbit is certain to change in the weeks ahead as more position measurements are made, but right now it appears that the comet's perihelion will occur well inside Earth's orbit, about 0.45 a.u. (42 million miles) from the Sun, next September 5th.

Right now, odds are that Comet Elenin will become an easy target for binoculars around mid-August and reach naked-eye visibility for a couple of weeks around perihelion. The comet's elongation from the Sun shrinks to just 1° following perihelion, but soon thereafter the comet gets enough separate to position itself nicely for viewing in the predawn sky.

...Finally, because Comet Elenin passes between the Sun and Earth, there's a chance its dust tail might "light up" (via forward-scattered light) due to the large Sun-comet-Earth angle and put on a really good show. The last interloper to do this, Comet McNaught, dazzled southern skygazers in January 2007.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

Here's the orbit diagram from JPL. While it comes between the Earth's orbit and the Sun, it doesn't come close to crossing Earth's orbit at anyplace near the Earth. I'm curious how close to comes to Venus, however. You can't tell from the diagram. Maybe some of our resident astronomers will weigh in on that?

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

Here's another diagram showing the closet expected distance to the Earth is .23 AU. That's plenty of distance for a margin of safety.

 

[chuck4842]

You can't tell from the diagram. Maybe some of our resident astronomers will weigh in on that?

I know, right?? I thought I was friends with Astrophotographer , and he'd at least drop in. ...busy maybe.

 

[chuck4842]

Here's another diagram showing the closet expected distance to the Earth is .23 AU. That's plenty of distance for a margin of safety.

That was so cool! It reminded me of playing Asteroids, the tail always trails away from the sun, like the back of your ship facing the target. Can you get it to start before 3-11-11? Was there an alignment? It's gonna align again early October and get close.

 

[mikeyx]

There's a bunch of sites posting about this comet that an amateur discovered, with an amateur scope, from Russia with the last name of Elenin. What scares me is ELE is a term used in FEMA documents meaning extinction level event, and nin the female goddess(to me , mother earth). Anyway it looks like it won't be long before we get a better night show of a comet than Hale-bopp, reported in news a year before the event.

one example http://reinep.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/comet-elenin-could-hit-earth/

1) the sky is not falling
2) your mommy dresses you funny
3) When your fillings start pulling in Mexican radio, you're doing it right

 

[Corsair 115]

The real horror will come with the realization that this comet will land squarely on top of a nuclear power plant!