I agree fully, Chuck. ------------------------------ On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 12:19 PM MST Chuck Hards wrote:
Yes Joan, completely coincidental in my opinion. As I posted yesterday, the unrelated orbits prove that they are not related.
The earth is pummeled by thousands of meteors every single day, these are just larger than average. As the human population grows and covers more of the earth, more of these big boys will be witnessed. Modern media connectivity also guarantees it.
Even though weathering and an active geology have erased most of them, there are still doznes of known or suspected impact craters on Earth from large bodies. It's been happening since the planet was formed and will continue forever. One look at the moon and you'll see about what the earth looked like at one time. Probably more pocked due to Earth's greater gravity.
A human liftetime is a statistically insignificant time span to draw any conclusions on impact rates or suspected clumping of data points.
Coincidence. To think otherwise smacks of anthropocentrism.
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 11:42 AM, <jcarman6@q.com> wrote:
Coincidence? _______________________________________________
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