SO MUCH FOR DOOMSDAY: Comet Elenin breaking apart...

Originally posted by princeofpeace
People PLEASE!!!!!! Good GOD what idiots are out here. Its a freaking comet. And now folks think its breaking up into miniature spacecraft? Are you serious? This planet gets scarier and scarier everyday and its only because of what i read on here with the psycho delusional crap. Unbelievable.

Agreed.

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck. It must be a duck.

The only true problem, is that you have a large group of people who really do not know about comets and they try to learn but get a lot of bad information. For example, if I were to move to California, I would be afraid of Earthquakes. I would probably completely freak out with the first Earthquake I experience, having never experienced one.

It's just a comet. Comets are not harbingers of death and doom and gloom. They are not messengers from the sky.

-saige-

Originally posted by potential_problem

 

Repairmen were sent.
Please stay patient, maintenance is in progress...

Just a ROFLz.

Brings back memories of the Maytag Man.



-saige-

reply to post by saige45

Comets are not bringers of doom, etc?

How sure are you about that?

For some reason, our very intelligent, YES, I said it, very intelligent ancestors knew differently.

Now whether all comets are a problem, I doubt, but some.......I am quite sure can be more than a pain in the neck. Our forebears knew something we have chosen to ignore, or been denied knowledge of. Perhaps our collective memory gives us a quick kick in the recall department every so often?

Originally posted by Elliot
reply to post by saige45

 

Comets are not bringers of doom, etc?

How sure are you about that?

The sad thing is that a basic science book for a few bucks would answer all your questions.

There is still a difference whether ignorant, uneducated people and ancestors without knowledge THINK that comets "bring doom" - as opposed to the FACT that "comets bring doom".

People BELIEVING this (today and in the past) STILL does not make it a fact - it just proves that people in 1000s of years are STILL ignorant and supersticious.

Originally posted by Vandipants
posted on 30-8-2011 @ 11:28 PM this post

So Elenin is "supposedly" breaking up, which i understand to be a pretty common thing for comets to do at perihelion. However i decided to look into other observed comets that have done the same thing, and i found this...

www.space.com...

Comet 73P/Schwassmann–Wachmann is said to be "no more than about two-tenths of a mile in diameter" before its break-up in 1995. So my big question is why, being a considerably small comet, (nucleus) would it get brighter upon disintegration instead of dimmer, as in the case of elenin....or so they say. Is there something here that were not seeing? I have my personal beliefs on comet elenin and Nibiru and don't wanna waste my time to share them, especially on this particular thread, however i did find it interesting that comet elenin (being app. 3-5 km in diameter) is becoming dimmer in light mag as it breaks up whereas 73P increased in brightness times 100s.
Also...its not a f***ing spaceship...honestly.

"This was a huge surprise, because the comet didn't get any closer to Earth than 122 million miles and was not expected to get much brighter than twelfth magnitude. Yet, here it was, somehow having increased its brightness by many hundreds of times!"
www.space.com...

www.space.com...

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Comet Elenin did get brighter when it broke up but then dimmed. This is a very accurate description of the event. Although noone has personally witnessed Elenin breaking up and leaving little baby comlets, the observation of this sudden brightening followed by a slow dimming alludes to a break up.

Here is why. Imagine for a second what is happening to the comet. The comet is passing close to the sun and becomming superheated because of it's relative distance. When the comet splits into multiple parts, you have now increased the surface area that is affected by the distance to the sun. What is a witness in brightening is the sudden superheating occuring amongst these newly exposed surfaces (imagine taking a single match and lighting it, now add about 6 or 7 additional matches and light them at the same time from the original match, these matches light up brighter than the singular match). Since the surface area exposed is greater than the original exposed surface area, the resulting outgassings cause more material to be blown away at a greater rate (think of it like burning fuel in your car, if you continue at a constanst speed you have a constant usage of fuel, but as you accelerate and push your car faster, you burn fuel at a faster rate). This then causes the comet to *burn out* faster than it would have originally, therefore, dimming.

-saige-

Originally posted by Yukitup

Originally posted by mikeybiznaz

But wait::::::what killed Elenin?

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Damn you Yoko...

Heavens to Betsy! what ever will planet X hide behind now?????? But wait::::::what killed Elenin?

everybody got it but you!!! try again another day Pal!!

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