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   The Starmaker to Lodder   
   Re: "The Day The Earth Stood Still"   
   25 Jul 25 19:42:58   
   
   XPost: sci.physics.relativity, sci.math   
   From: starmaker@ix.netcom.com   
      
   On Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:12:27 +0200, nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J.   
   Lodder) wrote:   
      
   >Chris M. Thomasson  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 7/24/2025 4:00 AM, J. J. Lodder wrote:   
   >> > x  wrote:   
   >> >   
   >> >> On 7/23/25 15:37, The Starmaker wrote:   
   >> >>> Chris M. Thomasson wrote:   
   >> > [-]   
   >> >>>> How many asteroids have hit the earth and killed many things from the   
   >> >>>> result of its impact?   
   >> >>>   
   >> >>> I'm surprised you 'fall' for NASA's 'the sky is falling' cons..   
   >> >>>   
   >> >>> NEVER in the History of Earth has an asteriod fell on earth!   
   >> >>>   
   >> >>>   
   >> >>> In other words, no insects, no animals, no fishes or people or person   
   >> >>> has EVER been killed by an asteroid!   
   >> >>>   
   >> >>>   
   >> >>> Okay, I'll make it easier for you since science is not your forte...   
   >> >>>   
   >> >>> When was the last asteroid that hit the earth????   
   >> >>   
   >> >> There could be various meanings of the word 'hit' but   
   >> >> I am thinking that some types of dust do drift or blow   
   >> >> to the ground every day that are supposed to be derived from   
   >> >> meteor fragments or micrometeorites.>   
   >> >> That would tend to mean today and every day.   
   >> >   
   >> > A common convention is to call things smaller than 1 meter meteoroids,   
   >> > and bigger things asteroids. [1]   
   >> > (you may prefer another convention of course)   
   >> >   
   >> > With this convention asteroid impacts are not rare events,   
   >> >   
   >> > Jan   
   >> >   
   >> > [1] This is about the size that is needed to reach the ground.   
   >>   
   >> Did massive comet impacts bring water to our little speck (planet),   
   >> earth in our little galaxy in cosmic time?   
   >   
   >Quite possible, but there really is no need to postulate that.   
   >The early solar system was cold enough to have ice around here,   
   >   
   >Jan   
      
      
   the ice age was caused by the earth bambaroo from the sun.   
      
   then it was not ...'just right',   
      
   now it's just right.   
      
   It was what killed all the dinosaurs.   
      
   It was too hot, then too cold.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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