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AutumnWitch657
reply to post by infoseeker26754
1995' Comet Hale Bopp in April and in Nov that year. Plain as day big and bright.
TDawgRex
reply to post by Phage
Well crap! You just burst my bubble.
I was hoping that ISON was going to be as interesting as Hale-Bopp. But I still have my fingers crossed after it goes around the sun. NASA and scientists aren't the all knowing folk they think they are and have been proven wrong time and time again. This is one of those times that I hope that they are proven wrong.
TheNewSense
See this is your problem. The reason you are so obessed with ISON is because your entire existential perspective is severely skewed.
Did it ever occur to you that it was travelling in a random direction and just happened to be on a course that crosses our solar system.
There is nothing out of the ordinairy here and without the people that you hink are hiding something you probably wouldn´t even have heard of ISON at this point.
Get over your obsession.
SheopleNation
Why would you just assume that the possibility never did occur to him? Did it ever occur to you that maybe ISON collided with an asteroid and it's former direction was altered, or that it's nothing more than a small chunk of a Star which exploded 10,000 lightyears ago? The possibilities are endless.
Soylent Green Is People
I suppose you are trying to say "well, it is possible that it came into our solar system from the outside after our solar system formed", and I guess that it is possible (just like almost anything is "possible"), but there is no reason to suspect that ISON is any different than every other comet out there. We can say "maybe ISON is different", but that would be baseless wild speculation.
SheopleNation
Soylent Green Is People
I suppose you are trying to say "well, it is possible that it came into our solar system from the outside after our solar system formed", and I guess that it is possible (just like almost anything is "possible"), but there is no reason to suspect that ISON is any different than every other comet out there. We can say "maybe ISON is different", but that would be baseless wild speculation.
Sure, Just as saying that "there is no reason to suspect that ISON IS any different from every other comet out there" is a reckless assumption. I mean, what reason could there be that would cause you to suspect? Not all Comets are the same, the Universe is much too vast to believe otherwise. I mean you and I could go on all day about what is, what isn't and what could be. One thing is for certain though, we don't know. ~$heopleNation
F4Driver
reply to post by infoseeker26754
I'VE BEEN FOLLOWING THE PROGRESS OF ISON AND IT JUST PASSED MARS (GAVE IT A JOLT AND COMA) AND IS HEADED IN TOWARD THE SUN.. THE RUSSIANS THINK THAT IT'S INTERACTION WITH MARS MAY HAVE ALTERED IT'S COURSE.
NO ONE CAN SAY IF IT IS GOING TO HIT THE SUN OR SKIM BY.... IF IT SKIMS BY AND SWINGS AROUND NO ONE KNOW WHAT TOTAL EFFECT THE SUN'S GRAVITY WILL HAVE ON IT AS TO THE EXACT PATH IT WILL BE ON WHEN IT HEADS BACK OUT EXITING OUR SOLAR SUN....
IT SHOULD BE VISIBLE BY THE NAKED EYE NOV. 16-20 AND PASS THE EARTH DEC 5-8 THEN WE WILL BE DEALING WITH IT'S DEBRI FIELD TRAILING BEHIND IT FULL OF ASTERIODS/METERIORS, AND EARTH PLATE SHIFTING, VOLCANOS...... THIS IF IT DOES NOT HIT US.
SEEMS THE RUSSIANS AND CHINESE ARE PUTTING MOST OF THE INFO....NASA HAS SHUT DOWN ALL PUBLIC ACCESS OBSERVATION SOURCES.