I’m not afraid of them but they do allow me to relax more and not worry about the future.
Meteorophobia (Fear of Meteors) Meteorophobia is the irrational fear of meteors. Someone suffering from this condition can expect to experience a very high amount of anxiety from merely thinking of meteors, let alone actually seeing them. In fact, their anxiety may be so intense that they may even endure a full blown panic attack as a result of it.
Millenniumis from the Latinmille, "one thousand," andannus, "year"—hence the two n's.Millenarianis from the Latinmillenarius, "containing a thousand (of anything)," hence noannus, and only one "n".[5]
The application of anapocalyptictimetable to the changing of the world has happened in many cultures and religions, continues to this day, and is not relegated to thesectsof majorworld religions,[6]bothAbrahamicand non-Abrahamic.[7]
Increasingly in the study of apocalypticnew religious movements,millenarianismis used to refer to a more cataclysmic and destructive arrival of autopianperiod as compared tomillennialismwhich is often used to denote a more peaceful arrival and is more closely associated with a one thousand year utopia.[8]
The Hale-Bopp comet was one of the "brightest comets to reach the inner solar system in history," according to NASA. Its closest approach to Earth took place on March 22, 1997 — which was the same week that 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult killed themselves inside a rented mansion near San Diego, which they called "The Monastery." www.oxygen.com/...
Millennial social movements, a specific form ofmillenarianism, have as their basis some concept of a cycle of one-thousand years. Sometimesthe two termsare usedas synonyms, but purists regard this as not entirely accurate.Millennial social movements need not have a religious foundation, but they musthave a vision of anapocalypsethat can beutopianordystopian.
Those associated with millennial social movements are "prone to be violent",with certain types of millennialism connected to violence.[39][40]In progressive millennialism, the "transformation of the social order is gradual and humans play a role in fostering that transformation".[41]Catastrophic millennialism "deems the current social order as irrevocably corrupt, and total destruction of this order is necessary as the precursor to the building of a new, godly order".[42]However the link between millennialism and violence may be problematic, as new religious movements may stray from the catastrophic view as time progresses.[43]
This is the (logarithmic) timeline of an expanding universe. We live at the 3rd line from the left and all stars will disappear in 10¹⁴ years (4th line). Then there will be 10¹⁰⁰ year of just black holes and then, the Dark Era
"Giant Meteor 2016," the decal reads, "Just End it Already." Modeled on Bernie Sanders's jaunty red-white-and-blue "Bernie 2016" logo "The Meteor is particularly appealing to independent voters, functionally in a three way tie at 27 percent to 35 percent for Clinton and 31 percent for Trump," the 2016 poll reads.
In 2016,nearly one in four told an opinion poll they would rather have a giant meteor destroy the Earth than see Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton in the White House.
The object,officially designated a comet on June 23, is calledComet C/2014 UN271(opens in new tab)or Bernardinelli-Bernstein after its discoverers, University of Pennsylvania graduate student Pedro Bernardinelli and astronomer Gary Bernstein.
Astronomers estimate this icy body has a diameter of 62 miles to 124 miles (100 to 200 km), making it about 10 times wider than a typicalcomet. This estimate is quite rough, however, as the comet remains far away from Earth and its size was calculated based on how much sunlight it reflects.The comet will make its closest approach to our planet in 2031 but will remain at quite a distance even then.
(2016) BOSTON (Reuters) - Young Americans are so dissatisfied with their choices in this presidential election that nearly one in four told an opinion poll they would rather have a giant meteor destroy the Earth than see Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton in the White House.
The tongue-in-cheek question was intended to gauge young Americans’ level of unhappiness about their choices in the Nov. 8 election, said Joshua Dyck, co-director of UMass Lowell’s Center for Public Opinion, which conducted the poll alongside Odyssey, a social media platform.
THE CHOICE ALLUDED TO THE TWITTER HASHTAG “#GIANTMETEOR2016,” A REFERENCE TO AN IMAGINARY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE USED TO EXPRESS FRUSTRATION ABOUT THIS YEAR’S ELECTION CHOICES.
Some 53 percent of the 1,247 people aged 18 to 35 said they would prefer to see a meteor destroy the world than have Republican New York real estate developer Trump in the Oval Office, with some 34 percent preferring planetary annihilation to seeing the Democratic former Secretary of State win.
Some 39 percent said they would prefer that U.S. President Barack Obama declare himself president for life than hand over power to Clinton or Trump, with 26 percent saying the nation would do better to select its next leader in a random lottery.
Some 23 percent, nearly one in four, preferred the giant meteor outcome to either Trump or Clinton.
“Obviously we don’t think that they’re serious,” Dyck said in a phone interview on Tuesday. “The fact that one in four of our young people pick ‘Giant Meteor’ tells you something about the political disaffection that is being shown by American youth.”
That contrasts with the surge of participation by young voters that helped propel Obama into the White House for his first term in the 2008 election.
In the wake of these surprising poll results, the “Sweet Meteor O’Death” celebrated its big win on Twitter (where its bio reads, “Ready to Make an Impact, Tough on Putin & Iran, I’ll probably destroy all Earthly life”), thanking its “human supporters” for the kind words and for considering changing its plans in order to put an end to human life.
When the giant meteor was left out of the equation, Clinton received 45 percent of the vote, Trump had 41 percent, Johnson had 5 percent and Stein clocked in at 2 percent. In a head-to-head vote between Clinton and Trump, the former secretary of state bested the real estate mogul with 48 percent to Trump’s 44 percent.
The most exciting part about this comet potentially being alien-manufactured is that "we might not be the 'sharpest cookie in the jar' or 'the smartest kid on the block,'" Dr. Avi Loeb told VICE. https://t.co/jm3CigSBI4
(2021) You may remember in 2017 when a bizarre,blunt-shaped objectcame whizzing our way in space. It measured approximately half a mile in length and was moving at an irregular pace, getting alien watchers excited. The vast majority of scientists who have studied the object have said ‘Oumuamua, was a natural phenomenon, but the head of Harvard's Astronomy department just published a book in which he says he believes the giant object was alien in origin.
In his book,Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth, Dr. Avi Loeb lays out in 240 pages exactly why he believes the object from 2017 was an intergalactic attempt to contact Earth.
“The most exciting aspect of the possibility that 'Oumuamua is weird and unlike any asteroid or comet that we had seen before is that it might be a product of an alien technology,” Loeb told Motherboard in an email. “If so, we might not be the ‘sharpest cookie in the jar’ or ‘the smartest kid on the block.’ We should search for additional interstellar objects to find out.”
In 2019, researchers at the University of Maryland published a paper inNature Astronomyconcluding that the giant space blunt was bizarre, because of its color, the fact it didn't have comet-like propulsion, and the fact that it didn't give off gases in the way a comet would be expected to. But they also said it was unlikely to be alien in nature: "'Oumuamua's having some unusual properties is by no means sufficient evidence to conclude that it must be aliens," Matthew Knight, coauthor of that paper,told Motherboard at the time, adding "As a scientist, I'm trained to not think in absolutes, so I can't say with 100% confidence that it *wasn't* aliens." Knight hypothesized that the object was "planetesimal," meaning it could be a building block of a planet.
