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The Comet Cometh

The earliest known hypothesis about a comet that had a widespread effect on human populations can be attributed to Edmond Halley, who in 1694 suggested that a worldwide flood had been the result of a near-miss by a comet.[46][47] The issue was taken up in more detail by William Whiston, a protégé of and popularizer of the theories of Isaac Newton, who argued in his book A New Theory of the Earth (1696) that a comet encounter was the probable cause of the Biblical Flood of Noah in 2342 BCE.[48] Whiston also attributed the origins of the atmosphere and other significant changes in the Earth to the effects of comets.[49]

In Pierre-Simon Laplace's book Exposition Du Systême Du Monde (The System of the World), first published in 1796, he stated:[50]

[T]he greater part of men and animals drowned in a universal deluge, or destroyed by the violence of the shock given to the terrestrial globe; whole species destroyed; all the monuments of human industry reversed: such are the disasters which a shock of a comet would produce.[51][52]

A similar hypothesis was popularized by Minnesota congressman and pseudoarchaeology writer Ignatius L. Donnelly in his book Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel (1883), which followed his better-known book Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (1882). In Ragnarok, Donnelly argued that an enormous comet struck the Earth around 6,000 BCE to 9,000 BCE,[b] destroying an advanced civilization on the "lost continent" of Atlantis. Donnelly, following others before him, attributed the Biblical Flood to this event, which he hypothesized had also resulted in catastrophic fires and climate change. Shortly after the publication of Ragnarok, one commenter noted, "Whiston ascertained that the deluge of Noah came from a comet's tail; but Donnelly has outdone Whiston, for he has shown that our planet has suffered not only from a cometary flood, but from cometary fire, and a cometary rain of stones."[55]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_myth

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If this bloke was killed because he found the Comet, then we are fucked.

Carl Grillmair was a Caltech astrophysicist at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, specializing in galactic astronomy, dark matter, stellar streams, galactic structure, and exoplanets. According to Caltech’s bio page of Grillamir, his research interests included “Dark matter, Galactic structure, stellar populations, and exoplanets.”

At the time of his death, Grillmair had been researching comets and asteroids that could potentially pose a threat to Earth.

If he did, in fact, find the comet, then that means it is on its way.

The clock has started, and the countdown to our extinction has begun.

>>24284894

You imbecile

The author was the bloke who discovered the comet named after him.

Despite being instructed to do so, Halley again did not publish the lecture of October 1693; instead he delivered on 25 October and 8 November two more lectures on putative errors in al-Battānī's observations; the conclusions were soon published in Philosophical Transactions, without any reference to questions about the world's age.49 However, he returned to the subject a year later in a lecture ‘About the Cause of the Universal Deluge’ read to the Society on 12 December 1694. Halley advanced a theory of periodic catastrophism; specifically, he suggested—two years before a similar idea was put forward by William Whiston—that the Flood was caused by a comet.50 A week later, after conversations with ‘a Person whose Judgement I have great Reason to Respect’, Halley suggested that ‘what I … advanced, ought rather to be understood of those Changes which might possibly have reduc'd a former World to Chaos’: the unnamed person was surely not Newton, as suggested by Schaffer, but Hooke, whose own theory—developed in lectures given since the late 1660s—much more closely resembled Halley's.51 Schaffer is certainly wrong to claim that in these later lectures ‘Halley was prepared to question the finite age of the Earth in public’52—Halley simply did no such thing. He did advance a theory of the partial corruption of the biblical text that was by then only mildly controversial.53 But it was his idea that the great catastrophic changes had preceded the chaos that was utterly radical, as William Poole summarizes: ‘in other words … there was a world before this one … Genesis therefore recorded the creation of a new geography out of an old landscape.’ It is this, and only this (and certainly not ‘Halley's empirical approach’54) that marked Halley's lectures out as particularly outré and led him to ask for the suppression of their publication (they finally appeared in Philosophical Transactions in 1724). That he was going beyond any other natural philosopher is confirmed by the opening of a subsequent lecture on measuring gradual changes in the salinity of the seas, published in Philosophical Transactions in 1715:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3826193/