porchrat
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Seriously... lol that name choice is causing confusion.
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It's very simple Killa, You need all the help you can get. Hopefully by Christmas you realised the futility in your actions realising you made a mountain of a mole-mount. Sure things are serious in America but I am thinking rather they are preparing for a possible financial crisis or breakdown and the expected riots to follow than anything else. It seems You believe all the propaganda and doomsday videos on the net. That is dangerous. Goodness your videos, the one I posted, almost had me fooled and forced me to delve deeper into Ison details just to find it's a no show at all. Sure maybe a meteor will strike Earth one day, maybe Ison's path may be changed by the sun but handle that when it happens as there is nothing we can do about it, to base your current life and current circumstances around those doomsday scr@p predictions are just sad and very dangerous.
McNaught discovered the comet in a CCD image on August 7, 2006 during the course of routine observations for the Siding Spring Survey, which searches for Near-Earth Objects that might represent a collision threat to Earth. The comet was discovered in Ophiuchus, shining very dimly at a magnitude of about +17. From August through November 2006, the comet was imaged and tracked as it moved through Ophiuchus and Scorpius, brightening as high as magnitude +9, still too dim to be seen with the unaided eye. Then, for most of December, the comet was lost in the glare of the Sun.
The implications of this analysis is certainly good news for observers. If ISON survives perihelion, we would then have a brilliant dawn Christmas comet unfurling its tail off to the northeast in early December.
Of course, these findings are contrary to early cries of its demise, including the paper out of the Institute of Physics that has been circulating touting “The Impending Demise of ISON”. Read Universe Today editor Nancy Atkinson’s excellent synopsis on that, it’s a tale that just won’t seem to die.
And we’ve also done our skeptic’s duty of thoroughly debunking the mounting ISON lunacy, including its status as the harbinger for the “end of the world of the week,” as well as its inability to fulfill prophecy. But if we get a surge in ISON next month as researchers suggest, we fully expect the accompanying hype to crest as well.
The most recent observations put ISON at about +10th magnitude as it currently crosses the constellation Leo, near Mars and Regulus in the morning sky. We recently did an observing post tracking its plunge to perihelion in late November, and we’ve been diligently hunting for ISON with binoculars every morning pre-dawn.
We’re glad to have some positive science to report on for ISON. Things are looking up for a fine show come early December!
And we’ve also done our skeptic’s duty of thoroughly debunking the mounting ISON lunacy, including its status as the harbinger for the “end of the world of the week,” as well as its inability to fulfill prophecy. But if we get a surge in ISON next month as researchers suggest, we fully expect the accompanying hype to crest as well.
Many of these conspiracy theories seem to be a recycling of last years’ Nibiru nonsense. The train of thought runs something like this: Does NASA know something that they’re not telling us? Why are they so interested in this comet? We’ve even had folks ask us why certain patches of Google Earth are “blacked out!”
What ARE they hiding, man?
It’s funny how pseudoscience seems to bubble to the top on YouTube, but I won’t give these conspiracy videos the exposure of the Universe Today platform. With hundreds of thousands of hits, they certainly don’t seem to need it. A simple YouTube search of “ISON” will scare up many wacky ideas about the comet.


In 2012, the Brazilian astronomer Rodney Gomes calculated the orbits of objects in the Kuiper Belt and found irregularities in the orbits of 6 objects. This suggests that a larger object is further out, tugging at their orbits. It could be a Mars-sized object 8.5 billion km away, or a Neptune-sized object 225 billion km away.
There’s another region at the edge of the Solar System called the Oort Cloud. This is the source of the long-period comets that occasionally visit the inner Solar System. It’s possible that large planets are perturbing the orbits of comets with their gravity, nudging these comets in our direction.
So, feel free to ignore every single scary video and website that says an encounter with Planet X is coming.
And use that time you saved from worrying, and use it to appreciate the amazing discoveries being made in space and astronomy every day.
Read more: http://www.universetoday.com/42450/planet-x/#ixzz2hHpKBwcM
That doesn't really sound like something I'd ever say.porch you are correct sometimes you cannot try avoid conflict.
That doesn't really sound like something I'd ever say.
I've probably said before that sometimes conflict is unavoidable, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't try to avoid conflict.



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Stop attacking the oke.
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Not sure what you mean, what is floating my boat? I have simply put an interview up. If you comment without having listened them so be it but i have said nothing irrational and i have not acted irrational so as mentioned i expected nothing less and i don't expect many people to listen to the guy and hear what he and what he did to form his opinions.
He isn't some doomsday conspiracy theorist. If it floats your boat to post it floats my boat fine each to their own and i won't abuse you or attack you regardless of your opinion or choosing to just post that comment without eluding as to it's meaning.
I can say the world is not ending, it won't end on the 31st of december. I have never claimed the world is over or we will die, you guys say that. As mentioned whether you listen to the interview or not is your choice i am not making any claims, i am not locking onto some conspiracy theory i just posted a google link with an interview. There is a website, there is google to check out his credentials.