Predicted! - Imminent Meteor Impact Global Catastrophe
We go about our lives complacently, unconscious of the sword of Damocles literally hanging on a thin thread over our heads.
We go to bed confident that the sun will rise to a new clear and beautiful sunny day and assume that there is some undeclared guarantee that the earth and its environment stand on solid foundations that are unshakable.
Th truth is that our confidence is misplaced.
Our dear planet earth has been, over the ages of geological history, a productive target in a deadly cosmic shooting gallery.
Impacts by comets and asteroids represent the most likely dramatic incident which could cause a global catastrophe.
According to evidence being unearthed by geologists and meteorologists several catastrophic collisions have occurred in the history of the earth causing global Armageddon and mass extinction of species.
It is now believed that such impacts have been the major cause of mass species extinction in the history of our planet.
And what should be more worrisome, especially to those interested in biblical prophecy, is that the Book of Daniel predicts in plain unmistakable words a major catastrophic meteor impact for our times in the following words(Daniel 2:34-35): "While you were watching, a rock was cut out, but not by human hands.
It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them.
Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were broken to pieces at the same time and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer.
The wind swept them away without leaving a trace.
But the rock that struck the statue became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth(note that the interpretative key to this 'prophecy' is provided in plain words by the Book of Daniel).
" When we look at the surface of the moon, we see a surface pockmarked with impact craters which tell the story that the earth and its satellite received deadly hits in the past eons of geologic history.
We do not see a terrestrial surface pockmarked in the same manner as the lunar surface because the earth is a geologically active planet.
Impact craters that should have accumulated over the geological ages are erased by geologic activity.
Plate tectonics constantly renews the face of the earth, and in the process evidence of major impacts in earth's history is destroyed.
Early in its history, the earth was subjected to several large meteor impacts from left-over debris of the formation of planets.
Meteorologists know, as a matter of fact, that the earth's closest companion, the moon, was repeatedly struck by objects more than a hundred kilometers in diameter.
We know, therefore, that the earth also must have received such impacts several times in the first 700 million years of its history, some of which are believed to have been massive enough to strip the planet of its atmosphere and boil away the oceans and actually sterilize the entire planet! The evidence is that life on planet earth might have been formed and wiped out several times over in the past! The risk we face from the possibility of collision of interplanetary bodies with the earth is largely unrealized.
The truth, however, is that the possibility of collision involving an interplanetary body large enough to create a blast equivalent to a 10 megaton bomb is high enough for the governments of the leading nations of the world to consider urgently a program for monitoring and averting such a collision.
We have conclusive evidence of mass extinction of life forms on the earth resulting from catastrophic impacts in the past.
The best documented, so far, is believed to have occurred 65 million years ago between the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods of geological history.
More than half of the biological species of the earth became extinct.
The species most affected were the warm blooded reptiles, the dinosaurs, which had dominated the earth for some tens of millions of years.
Experts have estimated that the body which collided with the earth had a mass sufficient to release energy equivalent to 5 billion Hiroshima-sized nuclear bombs.
It excavated a crater almost 200 kilometers across and generated an explosion which lifted about a hundred trillion tons of dust into the atmosphere.
Such massive quantity of dust would easily have blocked sunlight completely from reaching the surface of the earth and plunged the world into a long period of complete darkness and cold.
It is believed that the side-effects on the weather: cold and darkness, acid rains and large-scale fires which destroyed the earth's forests and plains must have been responsible for the mass extinctions rather than the impact itself.
The Cretaceous impact was not the only major impact in the history of the earth that we have evidence of.
Several other major impacts have been tentatively identified.
The Meteor Crater in Arizona is estimated to be about 50 000 years old.
The crater was created by a lump of iron about 100 meters in diameter.
The impact might have been witnessed by prehistoric human beings.
An even more recent explosion occurred on June 30, 1908 near Tunguska River in Siberia, an area which very fortunately is a desolate region of the world.
The explosion is believed to have occurred some 8 kilometers above the surface of the earth.
The shock wave of the explosion flattened more a thousand square kilometers of forest with herds of reindeer and other wildlife destroyed.
It is reported that a man who was at a trading post some 80 kilometers away from the blast was thrown from his chair and knocked unconscious.
Meteorologists speculate that the impacting body must have disintegrated violently before it reached the surface of the earth creating a shock wave similar to what is termed an "air burst" by nuclear bomb technologists.
The evidence from geological history is that globally catastrophic meteor impacts have occurred on the earth several times in the past.
The biblical Book of Daniel actually predicts one for our times in plain words (Daniel 2:34-35).
The fact is that a meteor impact catastrophe will happen sooner or later.
The only questions to be answered are when, where and what will be the magnitude of impact.
The earlier the governments of leading nations of the world begin preparing us for one, the better for us all.
We go to bed confident that the sun will rise to a new clear and beautiful sunny day and assume that there is some undeclared guarantee that the earth and its environment stand on solid foundations that are unshakable.
Th truth is that our confidence is misplaced.
Our dear planet earth has been, over the ages of geological history, a productive target in a deadly cosmic shooting gallery.
Impacts by comets and asteroids represent the most likely dramatic incident which could cause a global catastrophe.
According to evidence being unearthed by geologists and meteorologists several catastrophic collisions have occurred in the history of the earth causing global Armageddon and mass extinction of species.
It is now believed that such impacts have been the major cause of mass species extinction in the history of our planet.
And what should be more worrisome, especially to those interested in biblical prophecy, is that the Book of Daniel predicts in plain unmistakable words a major catastrophic meteor impact for our times in the following words(Daniel 2:34-35): "While you were watching, a rock was cut out, but not by human hands.
It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them.
Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were broken to pieces at the same time and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer.
The wind swept them away without leaving a trace.
But the rock that struck the statue became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth(note that the interpretative key to this 'prophecy' is provided in plain words by the Book of Daniel).
" When we look at the surface of the moon, we see a surface pockmarked with impact craters which tell the story that the earth and its satellite received deadly hits in the past eons of geologic history.
We do not see a terrestrial surface pockmarked in the same manner as the lunar surface because the earth is a geologically active planet.
Impact craters that should have accumulated over the geological ages are erased by geologic activity.
Plate tectonics constantly renews the face of the earth, and in the process evidence of major impacts in earth's history is destroyed.
Early in its history, the earth was subjected to several large meteor impacts from left-over debris of the formation of planets.
Meteorologists know, as a matter of fact, that the earth's closest companion, the moon, was repeatedly struck by objects more than a hundred kilometers in diameter.
We know, therefore, that the earth also must have received such impacts several times in the first 700 million years of its history, some of which are believed to have been massive enough to strip the planet of its atmosphere and boil away the oceans and actually sterilize the entire planet! The evidence is that life on planet earth might have been formed and wiped out several times over in the past! The risk we face from the possibility of collision of interplanetary bodies with the earth is largely unrealized.
The truth, however, is that the possibility of collision involving an interplanetary body large enough to create a blast equivalent to a 10 megaton bomb is high enough for the governments of the leading nations of the world to consider urgently a program for monitoring and averting such a collision.
We have conclusive evidence of mass extinction of life forms on the earth resulting from catastrophic impacts in the past.
The best documented, so far, is believed to have occurred 65 million years ago between the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods of geological history.
More than half of the biological species of the earth became extinct.
The species most affected were the warm blooded reptiles, the dinosaurs, which had dominated the earth for some tens of millions of years.
Experts have estimated that the body which collided with the earth had a mass sufficient to release energy equivalent to 5 billion Hiroshima-sized nuclear bombs.
It excavated a crater almost 200 kilometers across and generated an explosion which lifted about a hundred trillion tons of dust into the atmosphere.
Such massive quantity of dust would easily have blocked sunlight completely from reaching the surface of the earth and plunged the world into a long period of complete darkness and cold.
It is believed that the side-effects on the weather: cold and darkness, acid rains and large-scale fires which destroyed the earth's forests and plains must have been responsible for the mass extinctions rather than the impact itself.
The Cretaceous impact was not the only major impact in the history of the earth that we have evidence of.
Several other major impacts have been tentatively identified.
The Meteor Crater in Arizona is estimated to be about 50 000 years old.
The crater was created by a lump of iron about 100 meters in diameter.
The impact might have been witnessed by prehistoric human beings.
An even more recent explosion occurred on June 30, 1908 near Tunguska River in Siberia, an area which very fortunately is a desolate region of the world.
The explosion is believed to have occurred some 8 kilometers above the surface of the earth.
The shock wave of the explosion flattened more a thousand square kilometers of forest with herds of reindeer and other wildlife destroyed.
It is reported that a man who was at a trading post some 80 kilometers away from the blast was thrown from his chair and knocked unconscious.
Meteorologists speculate that the impacting body must have disintegrated violently before it reached the surface of the earth creating a shock wave similar to what is termed an "air burst" by nuclear bomb technologists.
The evidence from geological history is that globally catastrophic meteor impacts have occurred on the earth several times in the past.
The biblical Book of Daniel actually predicts one for our times in plain words (Daniel 2:34-35).
The fact is that a meteor impact catastrophe will happen sooner or later.
The only questions to be answered are when, where and what will be the magnitude of impact.
The earlier the governments of leading nations of the world begin preparing us for one, the better for us all.