The measured velocity vectors are inconsistent with that theory. On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 3:29 PM, ChemE Stewart <cheme...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 >> >>
