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I wonder why nobody is talking about comet Ison and how astronomers are saying it is the most perplexing comet ever observed. Some are even downright afraid of what they are seeing when they observe it because it doesn't act at all how a normal comet should act. Also interesting to note is how NASA has shut down just as it approaches. According to some reports, we will be directly in the debris field of this massive comet and it will cause destruction like that seen with the meteor strike in Russia earlier this year only on a much larger scale.
 
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Luminati_sl said:
I wonder why nobody is talking about comet Ison and how astronomers are saying it is the most perplexing comet ever observed. Some are even downright afraid of what they are seeing when they observe it because it doesn't act at all how a normal comet should act. Also interesting to note is how NASA has shut down just as it approaches. According to some reports, we will be directly in the debris field of this massive comet and it will cause destruction like that seen with the meteor strike in Russia earlier this year only on a much larger scale.
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Quoting this for future reference
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According to credible reports, it's very likely that nothing significant will occur.
 
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Luminati_sl said:
I wonder why nobody is talking about comet Ison and how astronomers are saying it is the most perplexing comet ever observed. Some are even downright afraid of what they are seeing when they observe it because it doesn't act at all how a normal comet should act. Also interesting to note is how NASA has shut down just as it approaches. According to some reports, we will be directly in the debris field of this massive comet and it will cause destruction like that seen with the meteor strike in Russia earlier this year only on a much larger scale.
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Sure it will, buddy.

Sure, it will
 
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It probably has something to do with you being retarded and the comet more than likely being destroyed as it passes the Sun, and having zero impact on Earth.

A Timeline Of Comet ISON??Ts Dangerous Journey | NASA

The reason scientists are fascinated with it is because this is its first trip past the Sun and therefore it is a chance to study what is considered to be a pristine time capsule from the solar system's earliest days.

By the way, dipshit, the comet already passed Earth's orbit, 5 days ago

Comet ISON PHOTO Shows 'Downright Weird' Space Rock En Route To Sun

Whatever is happening, Comet ISON continues on its way in toward the sun and will cross the Earth's orbit on Wednesday (Oct. 30) at 6 p.m. EDT (22:00 GMT).
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And no one is terrified or afraid. They're just curious why its so dim now compared to when it was first discovered. They thought it would be brighter. Its not. Oh no. A sign of the impending 2013 apocalypse since the 2012 one was such a turd.

Comet ISON: 5 Things You Should Know : Discovery News

The next eight weeks are a critical time for the comet. On Nov. 28 -- Thanksgiving Day, as it turns out -- Comet ISON will pass about 680,000 miles above the surface of the sun.

The encounter may prove deadly. Solar radiation will boil off the comet's water and other volatiles. Gravitational stresses will be extreme. Many comets with flight paths that bring them close to the sun do not survive. Comet Lovejoy (pictured here), which made its closest approach to the sun on Dec. 15, 2011, was a rare exception.
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Even if Comet ISON survives its brush with the sun, its voyage in the solar system may be over. "ISON's orbit suggests that it may gain enough momentum to escape the solar system entirely, and never return," NASA noted in a status report.

Scientists estimate Comet ISON began its journey from the Oort cloud, a collection of icy objects orbiting far beyond Neptune, about 10,000 years ago.
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Back in May, scientists were surprised when Hubble Space Telescope observations showed the nucleus of Comet ISON appeared to be no more than three to four miles in diameter.

"Since the comet was so bright and so active, scientists had assumed the nucleus was larger. Hubble found the dusty coma, or head of the comet, to be around 3,100 miles across and the tail to be more than 57,000 miles long," NASA wrote on a timeline of the comet's journey.

Additional Hubble observations are expected this month to check on the size of the comet's nucleus again. By Oct. 10, Comet ISON should be close enough to the sun that a wide-angle instrument on NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatories, STEREO-A, should be able to get its first glimpse of the comet as well. At that point, Comet ISON will be about 94.5 million miles from the sun. In November, the comet should be within range of NASA's Mercury-orbiting MESSENGER spacecraft.
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Though early predictions of a comet brighter than the full moon seem unlikely, Comet ISON should be quite prominent in the night-time sky -- if it survives its close approach to the sun.

In early December, the comet is expected to be visible in the Northern Hemisphere in the morning, low on the horizon to the east-southeast -- no telescope or binoculars needed.

A month later, the comet will be visible all night long.
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Remember when Lumie used to tell us about Nibiru and Planet X?
 
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This comet was predicted by Nostradamus. Apparently a world leader will die soon if this is the comet spoken of by Nostradamus' prophecies.



15x brighter than the full moon. Interesting. Nostradamus' prophecies state that the comet will appear to be a second sun in the sky for a week which is exactly what this comet will appear to be. We are not in it's debris trail yet but we will be in a few weeks.
 
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This comet was predicted by Nostradamus.
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No, it wasn't. And Nostradamus didn't predict anything, ever. He was a fraud.

15x brighter than the full moon.
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Yeah didn't happen. Sorry chucklefuck.

C/2012 S1 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Media coverage[edit]

After it was discovered in 2012, some media sources called C/2012 S1 the "Comet of the Century" and speculated that the comet might outshine the full Moon. An Astronomy Now columnist wrote in September 2012 that "if predictions hold true then C/2012 S1 will certainly be one of the greatest comets in human history."[11] As recently as October 2013, a Daily Mail columnist described C/2012 S1 as "the Comet of the Century" and said it was "hoped to be 15 times brighter than the Moon."[42]

Some scientists have criticized the media's coverage. Astronomer Karl Battams stated in July 2013 that "Few serious astronomers and cometary scientists have ever felt ISON would be 'brighter than the full Moon'. ... That's entirely the media's term, and we've been saying this for months, that none of us in the [Comet ISON Observing Campaign] foresee ISON getting that bright, and never have done so."[43]
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Luminati_sl said:
This comet was predicted by Nostradamus. Apparently a world leader will die soon if this is the comet spoken of by Nostradamus' prophecies.



15x brighter than the full moon. Interesting. Nostradamus' prophecies state that the comet will appear to be a second sun in the sky for a week which is exactly what this comet will appear to be. We are not in it's debris trail yet but we will be in a few weeks.
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World leaders die all the time. They are all pretty fucking old and there is a shitload of them

And Nostradamus was a fraud who got pretty much everything wrong.
 
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But as they combine, a neutron spins off and creates heat. Harness enough heat, and you can operate a power plant with arenewablesource of nuclear energy that produces little to no radioactive waste.
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Can someone explain that one? I mean, I guess technically deuterium and tritium are renewable, but on a useful timescale?
 
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Can someone explain that one? I mean, I guess technically deuterium and tritium are renewable, but on a useful timescale?
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Fission the helium atom back into hydrogen. They get the hydrogen from water.

Realistically though...

OK, 24 gallons in a bathtub, 100,000 kWh (roughly) in the water in the bathtub with fusion. That is 48,000,000,000 gallons of water to produce 200 petawatt hours. Which is a little over what we're currently using per year (we're at like 141 or something close to that). I'm rounding up to make the math easier. Which means, in Lake Michigan alone, there is enough water to supply our current power needs (not factoring in growth) for 27,083 years. I don't think running out is going to be an issue.
 
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Pretty cool. If it is capable if mass production I wonder what interest rates on a 30 year car loan would look like.
 
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