The Advent of Elenin, The Halloween Zombie Comet
Looks like old comets never die; they just fade away. The ice ball known as the Comet Elenin came barreling out of the far reaches of the universe into the fiery embrace of our sun and it did what most ice balls do: it melted. And so the mythic doomsday comet is fading out with a whimper instead of a bang. Evaporating a like slurpee on a sidewalk on a hot summer's day.
One day in the distant future, the gases from an evaporating comet may bathe the earth in zombie producing gases-in your dreams. Or perhaps your nightmares? Didn't they make a movie about that?
Or perhaps some large, stony object will smack the earth in the face and end life as we know it. But not this time.
So we will not have an extinction event.
The comet is not a brown dwarf. So dreams of earthlings over a roasting fire are over done.
The comet is not an interplanetary spaceship or an inter-dimensional transport device.
Perhaps it is the gossamer stuff of dreams since some many fruitcakes seem to pin so much significance of a relatively innocuous celestial event.
Darn, no zombies. Again! It seems that the living dead follow the beat of a different drummer. You can never find a good zombie when you need one.
The comet will not eclipse the sun. It won't even stop politicians from debating nor will it delay a major sporting event.
The comet will not cause earthquakes even more than that old Buick down the street causes earthquakes.
Let there be dirt. And there was dirt. And it was dirty. Now take that dirt and mix it with some ice and behold: Comes the Comet Elenin like a virgin bride with a million mile long veil to seek the warm embrace of her lover the sun for the last time. They tell us the comet is coming undone.
I understand that this missive will not put a period to the dreams of doomsday or apocalyptic visions of impending Armageddon, but for those who know their comet anatomy, it will definitely put a coma on it.
Doomsday disintegration dud.
So if you had a comet watching, end of the world, doomsday apocalypse Armageddon party scheduled for 10-16-2011, what should you do? I suggest that you get a life.
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