I've always wanted to read the Heir to the Empire trilogy by Zahn, but by the time I decided to read it, the first book had been out of print for some years... every book store I went to didn't have it...but I finally found one lonely copy sitting at the Barnes & Noble in Dartmouth, and I am finally about to embark upon it. I also picked up "The Ten Thousand", by Michael Curtis Ford---which also looks very promising... hopefully it'll be like "Gates of Fire", by Steven Pressfield, which is without doubt one of the best novels I've ever read.
I'm finishing up my first Ben Bova sci-fi book, "Jupiter." Anyone else here ever read anything by him?
I'm posting this here to make sure that it's seen. It can be moved to the appropriate forum later.
So we've been thinking about ways to get new members which is almost impossible since people can't find us. I got to thinking what about joining a webring? So I looked around and Webring.com seems to be the most popular. If you search for Nintendo on their site you get several Nintendo webrings. Some of which have many listed sites. It would be one way to get new members and all you'd have to do is put the webrings banner on the site.
The other possibility is a banner exchange program. There seem to be a lot of those so we'd have to try and find a good one.
Just throwing some ideas out there so tell me what you think.
Quote:"This impact could have altered the orbit of the comet, so now there is a chance that the Tempel may well destroy the Earth some day!"
This is the argument they are making. The fact that if it was never ever going to cross Earth's orbit and such an impact would make it an earth crosser, it could be undone in much the same way and we would have a massive lead time (say, perhaps a few million years) escapes her. Apparently, a risk is a risk, no matter how low the probabilities are.
Oh yeah, you all saw that impact right? It was pretty impressive and revealed a lot of data about that comet.
Also, keep in mind this was an astrologist, not an astronomer...
The NASA guys pointed out the effect of the object was about as relevant as slamming a mosquito into an airliner. Certainly, I wouldn't even mind being IN the plane, with loved ones, when something like that occured. It just wouldn't matter.
Also note that the risk of it slamming into the planet isn't the only thing she's saying. As an astrologer, she believes ANY alterations in the orbit at all have had strong effects on her future, and as such NASA owes her compensation for affecting her fate without her permission. She calls it a "moral trauma".
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