Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "The First Minutes The Dinosaurs Went Extinct" video.

  1. "Maybe you have an idea of how we can stop a world ending asteroid." Well, short of calling Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton the answer is simple, it can't be done. Maybe if you had decades worth of warning you could try screwing with the trajectory but I get the feeling the one that has our name on it will come from the Ort Cloud and we won't see it until its tail fires up. As I understand it, the solar system oscillates as it traverses the galaxy and this motion causes its gravitation to interact with the gravitation of stars in our general neck of the woods and its this interaction that nudges the really big snowballs floating around in the Ort Cloud. I recall some computer model that lined up these nudges with big impacts and found the positioning lined up just right every 40-60 million years. Now, lets say one of these nudges brings another Hale-Bopp our way only this time Hale is not as accommodating and this one is going to Bopp us right on the nose. No one spotted Hale Bopp until it fired up and that sucker was 18 miles wide. If some long-term comet that big is headed our way we would have maybe six months to figure something out. Why bother. And the powers that be probably wouldn't. They would send out public service announcements saying all is well to avoid WWIII but eventually people would figure it out and WWIII would happen anyway. People are panicky and when you combine that with a fallen nature you get what Billy Bob described as: "The worst parts of the Bible." And that would be that. Most everything on Earth would be dead and the only thing left to let the aliens know we were ever here would be the litter we left behind on the Moon. And plastic. The lunar landing platforms and an empty bottle of Mt. Dew. That's why I don't worry about such things. But that's me. Live long and prosper gang. 🖖
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