Massive Meteor Strikes Moon

Here is a website where you can ‘design’ your own meteor impact and see the consequences.

https://www.purdue.edu/impactearth/

It is worth noting that all of man’s recorded history has occurred during a period of geological and astronomical calm. Our ‘civilization’ only exists because of it so puny are we relative to the forces that can be unleashed. It is almost comic to listen to the Al Gore’s and De Caprio’s fretting about ‘climate change’ as if it is a new thing. The Great Lakes are less than 10,000 years old and there was a time when the Mediterranean Sea was a landlocked depression in the earth. To have been around when the Straits of Gibraltar were breached by the Atlantic Ocean would have been to have seen just how sudden and enormous an event can be.

Super volcanoes, asteroid strikes/mega tsunamis are not ‘rare’ events on the geological time scale just our human one.

I just finished an essay on the subject of just such disasters and their role in history and pre-history. Graham Hanock has written convincingly about the probable existence of an older forgotten civilization that may have been destroyed by a meteor strike at the end of the last ice age. The existence of such a civilization is suggested by the undeniable fact that some of mankind’s most remarkable engineering feats appear so suddenly without the long period of technical development one would expect, most famously the Great Pyramid. Much mythology and sacred literature is consistent with this idea as well as Plato’s story of Atlantis which fits perfectly into the chronology outlined by modern geology. Regardless, climate change is a fact of life on earth which we ignore at our peril. Peter Ward in the book “Under a Green Sky” has connected global warming events to several of the mass extinctions of the past, many millions of years before the arrival of humans. Of course, another fat meteor or a few massive volcanos and we could all be freezing our asses off from atmospheric debris blocking the sunlight just like the dinosaurs of yore. Unfortunately, none of these natural climate disruptions in any way support a belief that human activity does NOT cause global warming. This strikes me as just another example of the welfare queen mentality of many “conservatives” when it comes to exploiting natural resources and leaving piles of shit in other peoples’ yards for others to clean up. Having known a couple of prominent climate scientists whose belief in manmade global warming is based on years of first-hand research, particularly in the Arctic, I find it very depressing to hear all this infantile refusal to look at the probable reality we are facing. Any idiot flying over the planet and looking down should be able to grasp how vast human impact is on our environment and also note the connection between life forms and climate. Consider the dust bowl for a recent but somewhat localized illustration. Then maybe take a minute to note that our narrow band of existence on terra firma starts a yard or so below your feet and extends only to the tree tops except for some high flying birds. Between the crazed neoliberals whose main goal seems to be promoting conflict with Russia and the supposed “conservatives” who cling to a moronic and self-serving skepticism about apolitical scientific research, there seems little room for common sense. I suspect stupidity alone may be sufficient to bring on our demise without the intervention meteors from outer space. Bring on the shit slinging monkeys.

I always root for the asteroid, meteor, comet, etc. Somebody is going to have to clean up the mess humans have made down here.