Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sri-unix!REM@MIT-MC From: REM%MIT-MC@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Death Star? Message-ID: <17364@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Mar-84 07:30:00 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.17364 Posted: Fri Mar 9 07:30:00 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Mar-84 00:47:32 EST Lines: 21 From: Robert Elton MaasThe previous message was something I wanted to say for a week or so but forgot. Now I've read the news story that ihuxb!alle sent us, and I have one more thing to say: It seems the original gallactic-plane was half-baked, since it was immediately refuted by the fact we're at this very time passing through the plane of the galaxy but not getting the comet barrage, while the new theory is just grasping at straws to try to cover up the first theory. The whole periodicity observed in the first place might just be sampling error, everything looks vaguely periodic when examined in retrospect, yet only true periodicities can be used to predict the future. The scientists need to do a test of the periodicity by dividing the geologic history of Earth into two equal time periods, using Fourier analysis of the older data to predict a periodicity in meteor/comet impacts and then comparing that predicted periodicity with actual events during the latter half. I seriously doubt that has been done, but I don't know. In any case, if we're still alive a few million years hence, I think we'll be able to defend against the comets. I'm worried more about the next 5 years (subject of Arms-D).