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	<title>Comments on: Comet, or Vogons?</title>
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	<description>I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog.</description>
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		<title>By: shoemoney</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/05/24/comet-or-vogons/comment-page-2/#comment-15305</link>
		<dc:creator>shoemoney</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2006 19:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;shoemoney...&lt;/strong&gt;

nice shoemoney site at shoemoney http://www.imyourhuckleberry.info/ 15...</description>
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<p>nice shoemoney site at shoemoney <a href="http://www.imyourhuckleberry.info/" rel="nofollow">http://www.imyourhuckleberry.info/</a> 15&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Rebecca</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/05/24/comet-or-vogons/comment-page-2/#comment-15317</link>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2006 04:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wow.  Cool software; your own design or off the shelf.  ;-)  And yet in a way, how sad.  You are missing out on some *messed-up* entertainment.  :-D  He waxes astrologic.  Big time.  My neck got quite a work out from all the &quot;I can&#039;t believe he said that&quot; style head shaking.  There are descriptions and graphs and charts all over the place.

I love this quote particularly:  &quot;I could spend several hours preparing and explaining this chart, time which is unavailable at present.  If this turns out to be a significant chart, other astrologers can do a far better job than I explaining its significance.  It would appear to be the most interesting event during the 24 hour period that the Sun is on 10 Gemini.  The time of the event is 4:42 GMT on May 31.&quot;  And then he goes on to cross refer several major past events to previous celestial conjunctions, then compares them with conjunctions occurring this week.  Ostensibly, this is unshakable proof positive of his comet theory:  if it happened THEN under these &quot;celestial conditions&quot;, it&#039;s gonna ferdarnsher happen NOW!  What a weenie.

Have you ever noticed that the folk using the most boldface are those least worthy of serious attention?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow.  Cool software; your own design or off the shelf.  <img src='http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' />   And yet in a way, how sad.  You are missing out on some *messed-up* entertainment.  <img src='http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':-D' class='wp-smiley' />   He waxes astrologic.  Big time.  My neck got quite a work out from all the &#8220;I can&#8217;t believe he said that&#8221; style head shaking.  There are descriptions and graphs and charts all over the place.</p>
<p>I love this quote particularly:  &#8220;I could spend several hours preparing and explaining this chart, time which is unavailable at present.  If this turns out to be a significant chart, other astrologers can do a far better job than I explaining its significance.  It would appear to be the most interesting event during the 24 hour period that the Sun is on 10 Gemini.  The time of the event is 4:42 GMT on May 31.&#8221;  And then he goes on to cross refer several major past events to previous celestial conjunctions, then compares them with conjunctions occurring this week.  Ostensibly, this is unshakable proof positive of his comet theory:  if it happened THEN under these &#8220;celestial conditions&#8221;, it&#8217;s gonna ferdarnsher happen NOW!  What a weenie.</p>
<p>Have you ever noticed that the folk using the most boldface are those least worthy of serious attention?</p>
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		<title>By: Evolving Squid</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/05/24/comet-or-vogons/comment-page-2/#comment-15345</link>
		<dc:creator>Evolving Squid</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2006 22:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Whoa! my bollocks-blocking software caused me to get a blank page on that link.

Joking aside, one has to take one&#039;s uncritical, non-thinking pretty seriously to produce that page.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Whoa! my bollocks-blocking software caused me to get a blank page on that link.</p>
<p>Joking aside, one has to take one&#8217;s uncritical, non-thinking pretty seriously to produce that page.</p>
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		<title>By: Rebecca</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/05/24/comet-or-vogons/comment-page-2/#comment-15347</link>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2006 19:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dates!  A tasty fruit.  Also a very subjective method of measuring time.  One might even consider it a cultural artifact.  I believe we are currently using the Gregorian calendar, putting 06.06.06 on Tuesday of next week.  However, if we were still following the Julian calendar, we would be past that critical date and women would be free to go into labor at will.  (*smirk* like it works that way...)  We could pick a wide variety of calendars, out of use (such as the Julian, or the system of runes in Scandinavia carved in large stones... or consider Stonehenge, et al...) or still in use (China still toggles back and forth between its calendar and the West; there is a lunar calendar used by the Muslim world; even older is the lunar calendar in the Hebraic tradition...) to set &#039;our&#039; Numerology against, depending on the desired answer.

BTW, he&#039;s changed the date.  Grab your swimsuits!  The Date of Impending Doom is now far more specific, including an actual time: 4:42 GMT on May 31.  http://www.savelivesinmay.com/slimdocs/A-clue-from-the-stars-en.htm
Which (ahem) may or may not have already passed.  Check your calendars!  ;-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dates!  A tasty fruit.  Also a very subjective method of measuring time.  One might even consider it a cultural artifact.  I believe we are currently using the Gregorian calendar, putting 06.06.06 on Tuesday of next week.  However, if we were still following the Julian calendar, we would be past that critical date and women would be free to go into labor at will.  (*smirk* like it works that way&#8230;)  We could pick a wide variety of calendars, out of use (such as the Julian, or the system of runes in Scandinavia carved in large stones&#8230; or consider Stonehenge, et al&#8230;) or still in use (China still toggles back and forth between its calendar and the West; there is a lunar calendar used by the Muslim world; even older is the lunar calendar in the Hebraic tradition&#8230;) to set &#8216;our&#8217; Numerology against, depending on the desired answer.</p>
<p>BTW, he&#8217;s changed the date.  Grab your swimsuits!  The Date of Impending Doom is now far more specific, including an actual time: 4:42 GMT on May 31.  <a href="http://www.savelivesinmay.com/slimdocs/A-clue-from-the-stars-en.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.savelivesinmay.com/slimdocs/A-clue-from-the-stars-en.htm</a><br />
Which (ahem) may or may not have already passed.  Check your calendars!  <img src='http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: TheBlackCat</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/05/24/comet-or-vogons/comment-page-2/#comment-15306</link>
		<dc:creator>TheBlackCat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 May 2006 02:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, the website has been revised.  Apparently the comet, which it seems only Eric Julein saw, wasn&#039;t the &lt;i&gt;cause&lt;/i&gt; of the tidal wave, it was merely an omen.  The aliens are planning on launching an attack on their own sometime in the indefinite future (although they hint at either Sunday or some time next month, it isn&#039;t very clear).  There is apparently some numerology involving the numbers 123, 14, and 4 backing this up but I honestly can&#039;t make any sense of it.  Something to do with dates.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, the website has been revised.  Apparently the comet, which it seems only Eric Julein saw, wasn&#8217;t the <i>cause</i> of the tidal wave, it was merely an omen.  The aliens are planning on launching an attack on their own sometime in the indefinite future (although they hint at either Sunday or some time next month, it isn&#8217;t very clear).  There is apparently some numerology involving the numbers 123, 14, and 4 backing this up but I honestly can&#8217;t make any sense of it.  Something to do with dates.</p>
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		<title>By: Tim G</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/05/24/comet-or-vogons/comment-page-2/#comment-15307</link>
		<dc:creator>Tim G</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 May 2006 18:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sorry, the quote should be:

&lt;i&gt;â€¦comets are not made up of &#039;dust and ice&#039; as was once believedâ€¦but are made up entirely of antimatter in some kind of solid form.&lt;/i&gt;

&lt;i&gt;The first major evidence that drove the point home, that comets are made of antimatter, was seen in 1994 when the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 broke up and the fragments collided with Jupiterâ€¦ The energy output of the fragments impacting on Jupiter is said to have been in the range of 200 million megatons of TNTâ€¦ Nothing but a matter/antimatter reaction could have caused this kind of hugely massive explosion.&lt;/i&gt;</description>
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<p><i>â€¦comets are not made up of &#8216;dust and ice&#8217; as was once believedâ€¦but are made up entirely of antimatter in some kind of solid form.</i></p>
<p><i>The first major evidence that drove the point home, that comets are made of antimatter, was seen in 1994 when the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 broke up and the fragments collided with Jupiterâ€¦ The energy output of the fragments impacting on Jupiter is said to have been in the range of 200 million megatons of TNTâ€¦ Nothing but a matter/antimatter reaction could have caused this kind of hugely massive explosion.</i></p>
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		<title>By: Tim G</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/05/24/comet-or-vogons/comment-page-2/#comment-15308</link>
		<dc:creator>Tim G</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 May 2006 18:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Quoting from Evolving Squidâ€™s link:

&lt;i&gt;â€¦comets are not made up of &#039;dust and ice&#039; as was once believedâ€¦but are made up entirely of antimatter in some kind of solid form.

The first major evidence that drove the point home, that comets are made of antimatter, was seen in 1994 when the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 broke up and the fragments collided with Jupiterâ€¦ The energy output of the fragments impacting on Jupiter is said to have been in the range of 200 million megatons of TNTâ€¦ Nothing but a matter/antimatter reaction could have caused this kind of hugely massive explosion.&lt;/i&gt;


Well, lets do the math!
According to Einstein, just under 5000 tonnes of antimatter reacting with 5000 tonnes of matter will release that kind of energy.  Such a comet would be on order of twenty meters across.  That seems kinda tiny to be discovered by amateur astronomers.

The comet impacted at 60,000 meters per second, if we assume kinetic energy accounted for the explosion, the mass required is just under 500 Gigatonnes.  Such a comet is on the order of ten kilometers across, which seems more like a reasonable size for the comet to me.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Quoting from Evolving Squidâ€™s link:</p>
<p><i>â€¦comets are not made up of &#8216;dust and ice&#8217; as was once believedâ€¦but are made up entirely of antimatter in some kind of solid form.</p>
<p>The first major evidence that drove the point home, that comets are made of antimatter, was seen in 1994 when the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 broke up and the fragments collided with Jupiterâ€¦ The energy output of the fragments impacting on Jupiter is said to have been in the range of 200 million megatons of TNTâ€¦ Nothing but a matter/antimatter reaction could have caused this kind of hugely massive explosion.</i></p>
<p>Well, lets do the math!<br />
According to Einstein, just under 5000 tonnes of antimatter reacting with 5000 tonnes of matter will release that kind of energy.  Such a comet would be on order of twenty meters across.  That seems kinda tiny to be discovered by amateur astronomers.</p>
<p>The comet impacted at 60,000 meters per second, if we assume kinetic energy accounted for the explosion, the mass required is just under 500 Gigatonnes.  Such a comet is on the order of ten kilometers across, which seems more like a reasonable size for the comet to me.</p>
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		<title>By: Evolving Squid</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/05/24/comet-or-vogons/comment-page-2/#comment-15310</link>
		<dc:creator>Evolving Squid</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 May 2006 12:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Just a quick follow up.  I managed to get on their forums and posted this... of course, the forum is moderated, so the post will probably never see the light of day:

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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;what-if (5/27/2006)&lt;/b&gt;HI ALL:

I THINK THIS INFORMACION CAN BE IMPORTANT , I WILL POST IN SECTIONS:w00t: .

CHECK THE LAST PART

May 26, 21:00 EST

A little fragment of the debris field of the comet 73P was localized some minutes ago, traveling in direction to the earth.

LATITUDE: 40N&lt;/i&gt;

What about 40 N?  The comet is in space, it doesn&#039;t have a latitude.  It&#039;s also moving.  Or are you trying to say it&#039;s visible from 40N on the surface of the earth?  Or that it&#039;s 40 degrees north of the ecliptic?

&lt;i&gt;
SPEED: 900.000 Km/s approximately
&lt;/i&gt;

Must be very approximate... that&#039;s three times the speed of light.  If you ignore the laws of physics that pretty much say it can&#039;t possibly move that fast since it has non-zero mass, how would you see it at all since it&#039;s moving faster than the light that would indicate its position?  In addition, if it&#039;s 11 million km away, as you indicate below, wouldn&#039;t it have arrived in 12 seconds at that speed?

&lt;i&gt;DISTANCE: 11.000.000 Km approximately.

DIRECTION: TOWARD THE EARTH&lt;/i&gt;

The earth is moving at 30 km/s in its orbit around the sun, so you are suggesting the fragment is aiming at some point in front of the earth?

&lt;i&gt;EXPECTED IMPACT TIME: MAY 27, BETWEEN 5-6 AM EST

EXPECTED IMPACT ZONE: SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THE ATLANTIC OR THE CARRIBEAN SEA.
&lt;/i&gt;

Orbital mechanics are pretty simple calculations.  If there was an object 11 Gm away, I assure you it would be a pretty straightforward calculation to determine exactly when and where it would hit.  There&#039;s a 1500 km margin for error east/west in your statement - let alone the nearly 20000 km margin for error north/south.

&lt;i&gt;
Regards,
An Anonymous NASA engineer.
&lt;/i&gt;

Must be a sanitation engineer.

&lt;i&gt;
&gt; I&#039;m curious, I asked a few questions before, but since this will be hitting the atlantic/caribbean. Does Eric Julien&#039;s idea or theory hold any relevance to this. i.e... an earthquake or collapsing underwater volcano due to this?
&lt;/i&gt;

Nothing will happen.  More correctly, nothing did happen.  This whole comet thing has been what we call, in the world of people who use their brains for something other than keeping their skulls from imploding, (expletive for male bovine feces).</description>
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<i><b>what-if (5/27/2006)</b>HI ALL:</p>
<p>I THINK THIS INFORMACION CAN BE IMPORTANT , I WILL POST IN SECTIONS:w00t: .</p>
<p>CHECK THE LAST PART</p>
<p>May 26, 21:00 EST</p>
<p>A little fragment of the debris field of the comet 73P was localized some minutes ago, traveling in direction to the earth.</p>
<p>LATITUDE: 40N</i></p>
<p>What about 40 N?  The comet is in space, it doesn&#8217;t have a latitude.  It&#8217;s also moving.  Or are you trying to say it&#8217;s visible from 40N on the surface of the earth?  Or that it&#8217;s 40 degrees north of the ecliptic?</p>
<p><i><br />
SPEED: 900.000 Km/s approximately<br />
</i></p>
<p>Must be very approximate&#8230; that&#8217;s three times the speed of light.  If you ignore the laws of physics that pretty much say it can&#8217;t possibly move that fast since it has non-zero mass, how would you see it at all since it&#8217;s moving faster than the light that would indicate its position?  In addition, if it&#8217;s 11 million km away, as you indicate below, wouldn&#8217;t it have arrived in 12 seconds at that speed?</p>
<p><i>DISTANCE: 11.000.000 Km approximately.</p>
<p>DIRECTION: TOWARD THE EARTH</i></p>
<p>The earth is moving at 30 km/s in its orbit around the sun, so you are suggesting the fragment is aiming at some point in front of the earth?</p>
<p><i>EXPECTED IMPACT TIME: MAY 27, BETWEEN 5-6 AM EST</p>
<p>EXPECTED IMPACT ZONE: SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THE ATLANTIC OR THE CARRIBEAN SEA.<br />
</i></p>
<p>Orbital mechanics are pretty simple calculations.  If there was an object 11 Gm away, I assure you it would be a pretty straightforward calculation to determine exactly when and where it would hit.  There&#8217;s a 1500 km margin for error east/west in your statement &#8211; let alone the nearly 20000 km margin for error north/south.</p>
<p><i><br />
Regards,<br />
An Anonymous NASA engineer.<br />
</i></p>
<p>Must be a sanitation engineer.</p>
<p><i><br />
&gt; I&#8217;m curious, I asked a few questions before, but since this will be hitting the atlantic/caribbean. Does Eric Julien&#8217;s idea or theory hold any relevance to this. i.e&#8230; an earthquake or collapsing underwater volcano due to this?<br />
</i></p>
<p>Nothing will happen.  More correctly, nothing did happen.  This whole comet thing has been what we call, in the world of people who use their brains for something other than keeping their skulls from imploding, (expletive for male bovine feces).</p>
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		<title>By: Henrik</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/05/24/comet-or-vogons/comment-page-2/#comment-15309</link>
		<dc:creator>Henrik</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 May 2006 12:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hmm... I too registered at that wacky forum and got validated. But I cannot post any reply or topic. Apparently only selected members seems to be able to do that. Isn&#039;t that just grand, can&#039;t even try to post a comment...
I just read that someone on that forum claims that a small chunk of a comet is hurling towards the earth at at speed of 900 000 km/s... 3 times the speed of light =D... I wonder where these guys come up with all this.
My senses tells me this has got to be a big joke, no one can&#039;t be this stupid...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hmm&#8230; I too registered at that wacky forum and got validated. But I cannot post any reply or topic. Apparently only selected members seems to be able to do that. Isn&#8217;t that just grand, can&#8217;t even try to post a comment&#8230;<br />
I just read that someone on that forum claims that a small chunk of a comet is hurling towards the earth at at speed of 900 000 km/s&#8230; 3 times the speed of light =D&#8230; I wonder where these guys come up with all this.<br />
My senses tells me this has got to be a big joke, no one can&#8217;t be this stupid&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Evolving Squid</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/05/24/comet-or-vogons/comment-page-2/#comment-15313</link>
		<dc:creator>Evolving Squid</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 May 2006 03:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>ack double post, my apologies.</description>
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		<title>By: Evolving Squid</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/05/24/comet-or-vogons/comment-page-2/#comment-15312</link>
		<dc:creator>Evolving Squid</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 May 2006 03:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is awesome!

&lt;i&gt;For example it is known that comets are not made up of &#039;dust and ice&#039; as was once believed, and still is by some, but are made up entirely of antimatter in some kind of solid form. It is also known that this comet antimatter represents an immensely rich energy resource, which evidence suggests might some day be harvested.&lt;/i&gt;

You can find this awesome scientific exposÃ© at &lt;a href=&quot;http://members.shaw.ca/rolfwitzsche/canada/age.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is awesome!</p>
<p><i>For example it is known that comets are not made up of &#8216;dust and ice&#8217; as was once believed, and still is by some, but are made up entirely of antimatter in some kind of solid form. It is also known that this comet antimatter represents an immensely rich energy resource, which evidence suggests might some day be harvested.</i></p>
<p>You can find this awesome scientific exposÃ© at <a href="http://members.shaw.ca/rolfwitzsche/canada/age.html" rel="nofollow">Link</a></p>
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		<title>By: Evolving Squid</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/05/24/comet-or-vogons/comment-page-2/#comment-15311</link>
		<dc:creator>Evolving Squid</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 May 2006 03:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is awesome!

&lt;i&gt;For example it is known that comets are not made up of &#039;dust and ice&#039; as was once believed, and still is by some, but are made up entirely of antimatter in some kind of solid form. It is also known that this comet antimatter represents an immensely rich energy resource, which evidence suggests might some day be harvested.&lt;/i&gt;

You can find this awesome scientific exposÃ© at http://members.shaw.ca/rolfwitzsche/canada/age.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is awesome!</p>
<p><i>For example it is known that comets are not made up of &#8216;dust and ice&#8217; as was once believed, and still is by some, but are made up entirely of antimatter in some kind of solid form. It is also known that this comet antimatter represents an immensely rich energy resource, which evidence suggests might some day be harvested.</i></p>
<p>You can find this awesome scientific exposÃ© at <a href="http://members.shaw.ca/rolfwitzsche/canada/age.html" rel="nofollow">http://members.shaw.ca/rolfwitzsche/canada/age.html</a></p>
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		<title>By: Bryn</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/05/24/comet-or-vogons/comment-page-2/#comment-15316</link>
		<dc:creator>Bryn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 20:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh, dear!  I&#039;ve been validated (huzzah!), but there doesn&#039;t actually seem to be any content.  At all.  No actual forums posts whatsoever.  355 members and nada.  I&#039;m somewhat confused as to the usefulness of a postless (pointless?) forum.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh, dear!  I&#8217;ve been validated (huzzah!), but there doesn&#8217;t actually seem to be any content.  At all.  No actual forums posts whatsoever.  355 members and nada.  I&#8217;m somewhat confused as to the usefulness of a postless (pointless?) forum.</p>
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		<title>By: Bryn</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/05/24/comet-or-vogons/comment-page-2/#comment-15315</link>
		<dc:creator>Bryn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 20:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, the webpage is still up with a waffly sort of update.  I tried signing on to see what was what in their forum (you can&#039;t read any of it unless you register).  The wee bit you *can* read says, &quot;451 members have posted 0 posts within 1 topic&quot;, which sounds like an awfully boring forum.  I&#039;ve tried twice and still haven&#039;t gotten a validation email.  Sigh...either they don&#039;t like me on non-sight, in spite of being a frooby sort of gal who always knows where her towel is or, by strange cosmic coincidence, their server was taken out by a comet.  Hmmmmm....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, the webpage is still up with a waffly sort of update.  I tried signing on to see what was what in their forum (you can&#8217;t read any of it unless you register).  The wee bit you *can* read says, &#8220;451 members have posted 0 posts within 1 topic&#8221;, which sounds like an awfully boring forum.  I&#8217;ve tried twice and still haven&#8217;t gotten a validation email.  Sigh&#8230;either they don&#8217;t like me on non-sight, in spite of being a frooby sort of gal who always knows where her towel is or, by strange cosmic coincidence, their server was taken out by a comet.  Hmmmmm&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: ENIGMA</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/05/24/comet-or-vogons/comment-page-2/#comment-15314</link>
		<dc:creator>ENIGMA</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 19:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>May 26th; we&#039;re still here and its almost 4pm. I was washing my car yesterday thinking when the tidal wave was going to hit so I wouldn&#039;t have to do that. Darn! It&#039;s raining again and as someone pointed out above now they are all freaking about about 666 but RAD is correct its not 666 its 06/06/06; the 0s and dashes count for something not to mention Nostrudumas&#039; thing of the world ending in 2014. I wonder what Mr. Julien is doing today? I wonder if his car got egged by anyone. Or is he coming up for a new way to warn the public of impending doom?

Food for thought! ~wink~</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>May 26th; we&#8217;re still here and its almost 4pm. I was washing my car yesterday thinking when the tidal wave was going to hit so I wouldn&#8217;t have to do that. Darn! It&#8217;s raining again and as someone pointed out above now they are all freaking about about 666 but RAD is correct its not 666 its 06/06/06; the 0s and dashes count for something not to mention Nostrudumas&#8217; thing of the world ending in 2014. I wonder what Mr. Julien is doing today? I wonder if his car got egged by anyone. Or is he coming up for a new way to warn the public of impending doom?</p>
<p>Food for thought! ~wink~</p>
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		<title>By: Gary Ansorge</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/05/24/comet-or-vogons/comment-page-2/#comment-15322</link>
		<dc:creator>Gary Ansorge</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 15:33:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dang, no wonder I had trouble keeping up with the doomsday scenario. I thought it was supposed to be TROWEL day. I&#039;ve been carrying this thing around and digging in the garden,,,
Oh, are Y&#039;All still there?

As I recall, the Christian bible says something to the effect,&quot; No man will know the time or day of my coming,,,&quot;

I think that pretty much precludes the running around, hiding under rocks or atop mountains that usually follows the announcement of some doom soon to come. Another way of saying this is,&quot; You&#039;ll never see the piano that has your name on it,,,so,,,BE HAPPY!&quot;

Gary 7
PS On the other hand, global warming IS something we can affect,,,but that is predicted by REAL scientists and is peer reviewed.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dang, no wonder I had trouble keeping up with the doomsday scenario. I thought it was supposed to be TROWEL day. I&#8217;ve been carrying this thing around and digging in the garden,,,<br />
Oh, are Y&#8217;All still there?</p>
<p>As I recall, the Christian bible says something to the effect,&#8221; No man will know the time or day of my coming,,,&#8221;</p>
<p>I think that pretty much precludes the running around, hiding under rocks or atop mountains that usually follows the announcement of some doom soon to come. Another way of saying this is,&#8221; You&#8217;ll never see the piano that has your name on it,,,so,,,BE HAPPY!&#8221;</p>
<p>Gary 7<br />
PS On the other hand, global warming IS something we can affect,,,but that is predicted by REAL scientists and is peer reviewed.</p>
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		<title>By: Cynthia</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/05/24/comet-or-vogons/comment-page-2/#comment-15321</link>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 15:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>B.A.: I am so disappointed... Upon dropping down the back of a pick-up truck with a beer cooler at hand, I was so looking forward to enjoying mass destruction.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>B.A.: I am so disappointed&#8230; Upon dropping down the back of a pick-up truck with a beer cooler at hand, I was so looking forward to enjoying mass destruction.</p>
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		<title>By: RAD</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/05/24/comet-or-vogons/comment-page-2/#comment-15320</link>
		<dc:creator>RAD</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 15:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And no it get worse, as if the end of the world wasn&#039;t enough, women are hoping to avoid giving birth on june 6th of this year so as to not have the antichrist. I thought the number was suppose to be 666 not 06/06/06. Do I hear the church lady here?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And no it get worse, as if the end of the world wasn&#8217;t enough, women are hoping to avoid giving birth on june 6th of this year so as to not have the antichrist. I thought the number was suppose to be 666 not 06/06/06. Do I hear the church lady here?</p>
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		<title>By: Wendy</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/05/24/comet-or-vogons/comment-page-2/#comment-15319</link>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 14:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I took a cruise once and cellular phones don&#039;t work in the middle of the ocean, or anywhere far from a shore that has cellular towers or repeaters or whatever they are.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I took a cruise once and cellular phones don&#8217;t work in the middle of the ocean, or anywhere far from a shore that has cellular towers or repeaters or whatever they are.</p>
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		<title>By: Richard B. Drumm</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/05/24/comet-or-vogons/comment-page-2/#comment-15318</link>
		<dc:creator>Richard B. Drumm</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 14:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hmmmm....
Is it just possible that Mr. Julien is a fan of &quot;Hitchiker&#039;s Guide&quot; and has done this hooey just to celebrate Towel Day?

As I was reading the posts I was thinking about the Azores impact and the 48 hour window inconsistency. Then I came on Evolving Squid&#039;s and Black Cat&#039;s posts and my faith in science and humanity was restored! ;-)
Rich</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hmmmm&#8230;.<br />
Is it just possible that Mr. Julien is a fan of &#8220;Hitchiker&#8217;s Guide&#8221; and has done this hooey just to celebrate Towel Day?</p>
<p>As I was reading the posts I was thinking about the Azores impact and the 48 hour window inconsistency. Then I came on Evolving Squid&#8217;s and Black Cat&#8217;s posts and my faith in science and humanity was restored! <img src='http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
Rich</p>
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		<title>By: David Willard</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/05/24/comet-or-vogons/comment-page-2/#comment-15323</link>
		<dc:creator>David Willard</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 14:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Good grief!</description>
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		<title>By: P. Edward Murray</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/05/24/comet-or-vogons/comment-page-2/#comment-15346</link>
		<dc:creator>P. Edward Murray</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 12:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Just thought of this...nothing was said about the
&quot;End of the world&quot; or lack thereof on CNN yesterday.
I guess this stuff only shows up on a slow news day!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just thought of this&#8230;nothing was said about the<br />
&#8220;End of the world&#8221; or lack thereof on CNN yesterday.<br />
I guess this stuff only shows up on a slow news day!</p>
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		<title>By: Mark Hansen</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/05/24/comet-or-vogons/comment-page-2/#comment-15350</link>
		<dc:creator>Mark Hansen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 06:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think I know where the comet fragment impacted. As pointed out above, the &quot;savelivesinmay&quot; website was temporarily offline and the forum is still out. I guess the fragment was so small that all it did was destroy or disable a webpage and a forum, and send a few ripples throughout cyberspace. Perhaps Mr. Julien&#039;s website is located in the Azores?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think I know where the comet fragment impacted. As pointed out above, the &#8220;savelivesinmay&#8221; website was temporarily offline and the forum is still out. I guess the fragment was so small that all it did was destroy or disable a webpage and a forum, and send a few ripples throughout cyberspace. Perhaps Mr. Julien&#8217;s website is located in the Azores?</p>
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		<title>By: Thomas Siefert</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/05/24/comet-or-vogons/comment-page-2/#comment-15349</link>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Siefert</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 05:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ah well, better putter off to work then...</description>
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		<title>By: Dukrous</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/05/24/comet-or-vogons/comment-page-2/#comment-15348</link>
		<dc:creator>Dukrous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 04:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You know, I was kinda hoping the world would end so I could get a nice weekend.  Instead, here I am at work...le sigh.</description>
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