The Day All Life on Earth Almost Ended

The Day All Life on Earth Almost Ended

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On August 12th, 1883, a pack of life-extinguishing comets came within a few hundred miles of slamming into the Earth, nearly killing everything on the planet.

That's what scientists at the National

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According to wikipedia article on Jose Bonilla the anomalous event (considered by some to the first picture of a UFO ever) was subsequently determined to be a flock of geese, or was it....??? DUN DUN DUN!

This is admittedly nothing near proof of anything, but the new theory is certainly interesting especially to some of the curious minds around ATS.

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reply to post by Threadfall


The day life on earth almost ended was when George W. Bush took the oath. =D

Sorry, very cool, but, you were beat to the punch.

Wait wait wait

Isnt 1883 Karakatoa explode ?
Conspiracy brewing:
Comet pass and move earth crust with its gravity pull and Karakatoa cant stand it - explode.

Hey, I did it in single line.

Oh no a pack of wild comets, darn whippersnappers

wasn't it the year the internet became available to the general public?

reply to post by NullVoid


Comets... gravity?

Nnnngh.

Guys... gravity is not this humongous, all-destructive force. In fact it's pretty damn weak. Here's an experiment; Lift your arm. Now lower your arm. Now? Lift your arm again. pick something up.

That is you successfully countering the gravitational pull of an immense, VERY dense planetary body. You literally do this in your sleep.

A few hundred clods of space-dirt aren't going to exert a massive tidal force on krakatoa's magma chamber.

Originally posted by outsidethesquare
wasn't it the year the internet became available to the general public?

Yeah, but it was another hundred years before the sheeple could afford it.

Hilarious.

reply to post by TheWalkingFox


Nope, you are overcoming the gravity of the object you are picking up.

Doesn't all life on Earth almost end every day....

But then it pulls through till the next one?

Great so ELENIN was a fizzle and now we are looking up almost extinction level events?

Hmm Krakatoa... wasn't that the year Tesla first tested his fore runner to HAARP

Originally posted by NullVoid
Wait wait wait

Isnt 1883 Karakatoa explode ?
Conspiracy brewing:
Comet pass and move earth crust with its gravity pull and Karakatoa cant stand it - explode.

Hey, I did it in single line.

The comets were a tad smaller than the moon, thus not likely.

Or else it would be fireball earth down here.

Originally posted by Ex_MislTech
The comets were a tad smaller than the moon, thus not likely.

Well if they were the size of the moon they would definitely have a gravitational effect... but I suspect what was the size of the moon was the gaseous coma, not the comet itself

17P/Holmes got bigger than our Sun

Originally posted by outsidethesquare
wasn't it the year the internet became available to the general public?

No, that was the day all life on earth started, you know, with all the free porn

Originally posted by Unvarnished
reply to post by Threadfall

 

The day life on earth almost ended was when George W. Bush took the oath. =D

Lol good thing Obama was elected to finsih it....


Interesting article OP - nice find.
I think the more we find out about space the more we are going to realize just how fragile the universe can be.

Originally posted by outsidethesquare
wasn't it the year the internet became available to the general public?

No couldnt have been, Al Gore wasnt born yet.

second line

reply to post by Angelic Resurrection


You're also overcoming the gravity holding your arm down. Walking is defying gravity. Watch any young child just learning. The mechanics is lean forward to gain motion and then get your feet to catch up with you. Every child learning to walk does so first by walking in a leaning forward position. We learn balance as we go. But all is defying gravity. If we couldnt we would all be laying in the ground unable to move.