I think a much more plausible theory is that one of those 3 large inbound comets have pulled in asteroids with them
On Friday, February 22, 2013, ChemE Stewart wrote: > Did you guys invent the Internet too? Terry, I like your theory better. > > On Friday, February 22, 2013, James Bowery wrote: > > Before I get into talking about the delightful coincidence of February 15, > 2013 between the close Earth flyby of an asteroid and the largest meteor > entry to Earth's atmosphere in over a century -- both at mutually > independent vectors -- I want to talk a little about another delightful > coincidence: > > While working at Science Applications International Corporoation's > Roselle St. offices in Sorrento Valley of La Jolla, > CA<https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=saic+san+diego,+ca&fb=1&gl=us&hq=saic&hnear=0x80d9530fad921e4b:0xd3a21fdfd15df79,San+Diego,+CA&ei=8L0nUZuLGsjZrAHRuoHQDQ&ved=0CKMBELYD&iwloc=cids:2698751337000512967> > during > the Reagan administration's "Star Wars" project, I would frequently receive > mail addressed to a prior occupant of my office there: Peter Vajk. You > might recall Peter Vajk as the author of "Doomsday Has Been > Cancelled<http://www.amazon.com/Doomsday-been-cancelled-Peter-Vajk/dp/0915238241>" > in which he modified the Club of Rome's dynamical global model to > incorporate non-terrestrial resources. In 1974, I wrote the first > multiplayer 3D virtual reality (first person shooter) game called > "spasim<http://web.archive.org/web/20070419202019/http://www.geocities.com/jim_bowery/spasim.html>" > in which I concocted a set of differential equations doing a mock up of the > Club of Rome's model and the major theme of the game was the acquisition of > nonterrestrial resources to keep the plant's population from going into > revolt over terrestrial limits to growth. Vajk did his first work in this > area in 1975. Oh but the delightful coincidence doesn't end there, because > every day on my way to the industrial assembly area next door where I was > managing the production of control software for an automated ordnance > inspection system, I would walk past the Strategic Defense Initiative bays > where, among other things, there were some rather impressive structures, > presumably intended for orbital operation such as a very light-weight but > powerful Van de Graaff generator intended to power who-knows-what. > > I bring up this delightful coincidence because my early involvement with > Gerard > O'Neill's Space Studies Institute <http://ssi.org/> as Senior Associate > 401 (right behind Ronald Reagan's membership number of 400) made me aware > of an apparent disconnect between the DoE's solar power satellite studies > and those of the non-terrestrial materials strategy popularized by O'Neill > and Vajk: Not one of the studies of solar power satellites conducted by > the major players such as the DoE even attempted a critical assessment of > non-terrestrial materials studies. The citations were content-free > dismissals. While we can chalk this up to a variety of bureaucratic > characteristics, including conservatism or more simply bureaucratic > stupidity, the events of February 15, 2013 lead me to suspect something > more. > > I had a bit of a hostile encounter with an old man who showed up at a > space development conference in 1983 in San Francisco where I was > representing Space Studies Institute and had designed their booth. Part of > the booth was the book "The High > Frontier<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Frontier:_Human_Colonies_in_Space>" > by Gerard O'Neill sitting next to the book "High > Frontier<http://www.amazon.com/High-Frontier-Daniel-O-Graham/dp/0523480784>" > by Gen. Daniel Graham. Above the two books I had a sign that said "The > Real Thing" and "Cheap Imitation" respectively. The old man walked up, his > finger shaking in rage at the book by Gen. Daniel Graham and said, "This > book could save this county!" I merely looked at him and told him that > O'Neill's book had come out before Graham's and that Graham's didn't focus > on the economics. The old man, still shaking, asked "Do you know who I > am?" as he opened Graham's book and pointed to the name of the person who > wrote the preface: "Robert Heinlein" at which point I merely looked him in > the eye and said nothing with an expression sa > >
