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A star is flinging comets at Earth.
A long-standing theory known as
Nemesis supposes that there is some sort of
"death star" on the outer edge of the solar
system, whose orbital motions perturb comets in
an icy region of objects known as the Oort
Cloud. According to the myth, the star's gravity
throws these comets toward the inner solar
system, and these comets collide with Earth and
cause mass extinctions once every 27 million
years.
However, 2011 study concluded that this
idea is unlikely, because the comet strikes in Rico. NASA quickly dismissed the reports —
recorded history haven't happened with any which turned out, as usual, to be false. But that's
regularity. The pattern that was recorded in the not to say that asteroids will never hit our planet.
hoax is actually a statistical artifact, or the result NASA and a network of monitoring
of researchers trying to find patterns in nature telescopes across the world are cataloging all
where they do not exist, the study's authors known asteroids wider than 459 feet (140
found. meters) across in line with a 2005 congressional
mandate. (Smaller asteroids, if found, are also
There's life on Venus. cataloged.) Of the space rocks discovered so far,
Back in the 1970s and 1980s, the Soviet NASA has not found a single asteroid that has a
Union sent several uncrewed missions to study high probability of hitting Earth in the
Venus. Ten of these Venera probes landed on the foreseeable future.
surface of Venus and were able to transmit data
and images for a few minutes before Aliens landed in Roswell, New Mexico CONNECTING
succumbing to the planet's extreme atmosphere. On a ranch in Roswell, New Mexico, so WITH
In 2012, the Russian news service RIA Novosti the story goes, an alien spacecraft crashed in COINCIDENCE
reported that Leonid Ksanfomaliti, a scientist 1947. While the accounts of exactly what
who worked on the Venera missions, suggested happen vary, the legend claims that a disc or
that the photographs showed living objects some sort of spacecraft was found on a ranch, MAESTRO MELODY, SONGWRITER. Francesco
moving around on the planet's surface. (RIA and that the government quickly covered up the "Maestro Melody" Ronchetti is a Composer, Vocalist
and Musicologist. His stage name is self-explanatory: a
Novosti ceased operations in 2013.) evidence. lifetime at the service of H.R.M. the...'Queen' Melody.
These alleged life-forms on Venus are While rumors of aliens circulated, some Founding member of the experimental a cappella trio
just an example of "letting your mind see people speculated that the crash was just a plain “Trinovox" (Jaro, Germany; EMI, France; Alula,
patterns in low-resolution data that simply aren't old weather balloon that might not have been USA), M.M. holds a Doctor of Music from the oldest
real," Jonathon Hill, a research technician who recognized by the local community. The U.S. university in the Western World: Bologna (Italy),
founded in 1083. For his Doctorate M.M. wrote the
processes images taken during NASA's Mars military has since acknowledged the first ever thesis based on the teaching of Pop-Rock
missions, explained to Space.com's sister site, "spacecraft" was actually a weather balloon sent Singing, another of his great passions. Currently M.M.
LiveScience, in 2012. According to NASA, the aloft as part of Project Mogul, which involved is busy performing with “Monster Songster", a unique
objects that appeared to be moving were actually flying microphones on high-altitude balloons to duo that specializes in turning its audience's 'on-the-
camera-lens covers that automatically popped listen for sound waves generated by possible spot' poems into finished songs in real time.
off of the cameras after landing LiveScience Soviet Union nuclear tests. DOCTOR COINCIDENCE, LYRICIST. Bernard
reports. These half-circle objects were seen in "Dr. Coincidence" Beitman is an Author, Researcher
images from Venera-13 and Venera-14, two Climate change isn't real. and University Professor. A psychotherapist and
identical spacecraft that landed about 590 miles Earth is on an abnormal warming trend. psychiatrist, Dr. C. decided to dedicate his life to the
study of...’Everything Coincidence' as a consequence
(950 km) apart. Both had two identical cameras Arctic ice is melting, the sea level is rising and
of a very dramatic and unforgettable occurrence
— one in the front and one in the back — so it temperatures are going to extremes in many connected to his father's death, when he was 31, as
makes sense that the covers would appear in locations around the world. Why is this reflected in the song "Karl Bled Into His Throat". We
different places. Another photograph that happening? Anti-climate-change conspirators could say that Dr. Coincidence is to Coincidence as M°
Melody is to Melody (although this might seem almost
Ksanfomaliti said was a scorpion is actually a have many explanations: solar activity,
too...coincidental to be true). With prestigious
blur in the image. radiation, the Earth's (and sun's) movements
academic titles from the top U.S. Ivy League
around the Milky Way, among other theories. universities under his belt, Dr. C. has increasingly
An asteroid is about to crash into While there are many components of turned his attention to developing a mystical
Earth. climate change, the fact that humans have relationship with Nature, a tendency probably started
contributed to it is indisputable. Temperature many years ago, as a child, with his first puppy, as
This recurring rumor claims that a described in the song “Snapper”.
graphs show that the climate has not warmed
threatening "doomsday" asteroid is about to
this much, this quickly in all of Earth's history
slam into our planet. An example from 2015 had
an asteroid purported to hit Earth in late (as seen in geological records), and that the Visit
September, when it would supposedly wreak increase correlates with increased store.cdbaby.com/cd/drcoincidencemaestromelody
devastation from its impact point near Puerto industrialization. []