Jim:
It was funny that the majority of the criticism to my last writing had
to do with the Mayan calendar and the Bible Code since I didn't consider that
my main
focus
and was meant as a lead in. I will say most prophecy is simply too
vague to be useful, and the only time it really catches my attention is when
separate
sources, separated by thousands of miles, hundreds or thousands of years,
and of different religions and cultures, somehow reach the same conclusion.
My real intent was more so to play "connect the dots" with what NASA and
the US Federal Government are doing along these lines. Do you realize that
Yucca Mountain
is a $48 Billion dollar project, meaning of course it will actually cost
several times that (private sector utilities can only dream of that cash
outlay).
The drilling machine doing it is like the one that made the Chunnel between
England and France, and the initial tunnel is 10 miles long. Since the US
government won't allow the reclaiming of spent nuclear material (like France
does and we should too IMHO), presently all nuclear "waste" is
stored on site with each reactor (a method which seems to have been working).
If anyone would ask the private sector, I'm sure an above-ground facility
on government land in Nevada (since nobody wants it in there back yard and
the Federal government owns most of Nevada) could be done for a couple hundred
million, and it could then be watched. Bury and forget for 10,000 years doesn't
sound
like
a good
strategy, but it does allow for justification of building such a deep and
gigantic underground system which could be used for other things. Presently
we know about NORAD and
Weather Mountain, and presume there are other such huge underground secret
government facilities. (http://www.sauderzone.com/ubtlinks.htm -that
one is the least UFO-based, so don't start in on that please) Thanks in particular
to Michael Williamson for that great link, which really makes
the point it happened before, thus it will happen again. Remember, those
are just the land strikes. Since the Earth is 2/3 water, statistically twice
as many as shown on that site on land - have hit water and no doubt made
tsunamis that made the 2005 tsunami one look like nothing. This should be
a concern to anyone living anywhere near the ocean, and not on very high
ground. Also, I am aware of the propulsion ideas, where land craft would
land on an inbound asteroid and then apply thrust to send it off course.
The problem there is we currently we lack the technology to do this to a
sufficient extent. Comets (or "giant dirty snow balls") are real
wild cards, and according to many scientists impossible to stop (but they've
been wrong). Remember the Near Earth Object Program has a stated goal of
identifying 90% of objects one kilometer or larger, though they are identifying
basically everything they can find. The fear is one sneaking up from behind
the sun,
or some viewpoint we can't see very well, thus giving us almost no warning.
The only thing I hope people take away is two fold: 1.) This is a serious
threat with a long term proven history of catastrophes, and 2.) Keep an eye
on what
NASA is doing. If you knew, would you tell people? I agree with the comments
that the general pubic (especially considering world wide) would probably
not be as cooperative and well-behaved as portrayed in the movie Deep
Impact.
I'll
close this with another movie reference: Remember Close Encounters of
the Third Kind? When the Piggly Wiggly semi-trucks start pulling into
Yucca Mountain, worry
and prepare.- Rourke http://groups.yahoo.com/group/survivalretreat