There has been much ado the past several days concerning an alleged "leaked document" from NASA's official website, confirming that an asteroid is indeed headed to the earth and will impact our planet on September 28!
Unless you've been living under a rock without access to wi-fi or 4G the past several months (or so tightly wrapped in your own cocoon of denial, impervious to the excruciating, never-ending nightmare that has become our World), chances are you've heard the bountiful rumors circulating around the conspiratorial Internet that a global cataclysm is being expected sometime in the month of September (with the dates of the 23-28 being the most common reported). Now, there's official "proof".
Before you head to the bunker, I've analyzed the above document, and although parts of it are convincing, others give me cause to believe that it is [yet another doomsday] hoax (at least this supposed asteroid impact, I can't say about any others!)...
Reading the document, there is just enough scientific goobledygook to convince a layman that the document is real. Using astronomical terminology such as declination, perihelion, and aphelion does give the document some credence. But the word "asteroid" is misspelled in the second paragraph. Okay, so many scientists are super-smart but may not be so good at spelling. True enough, but if you are preparing a document this important, I'm sure a quick Spell Check is in order before publishing it!
The detail about referring to Classification Code #7566 is a nice touch, and it's one of those too-perfect, no-way-to-verify touches that a mediocre writer would add to their novel or screenplay.
Finally, there's all of this scientific mumbo jumbo, then the last sentence could have been written by a ninth-grader trying to finish their essay on time and meeting the minimum word requirement! I mean, "Impact is estimated to occur on September 28, 2015, near Houston, Texas" is so anti-climactic as to be comical, really. All of this build-up to puff of wind? "Near Houston" is too general of an area, and with the surface of the Earth being so immense, the chances of the center of impact being directly over or near a major US city is really stretching the odds, in my opinion.
Chins up, preppers. Although this doesn't appear to be legit, I haven't had to time to disprove others! So, keep your ears to the ground and your eyes to the stars!
Unless you've been living under a rock without access to wi-fi or 4G the past several months (or so tightly wrapped in your own cocoon of denial, impervious to the excruciating, never-ending nightmare that has become our World), chances are you've heard the bountiful rumors circulating around the conspiratorial Internet that a global cataclysm is being expected sometime in the month of September (with the dates of the 23-28 being the most common reported). Now, there's official "proof".
Before you head to the bunker, I've analyzed the above document, and although parts of it are convincing, others give me cause to believe that it is [yet another doomsday] hoax (at least this supposed asteroid impact, I can't say about any others!)...
Reading the document, there is just enough scientific goobledygook to convince a layman that the document is real. Using astronomical terminology such as declination, perihelion, and aphelion does give the document some credence. But the word "asteroid" is misspelled in the second paragraph. Okay, so many scientists are super-smart but may not be so good at spelling. True enough, but if you are preparing a document this important, I'm sure a quick Spell Check is in order before publishing it!
The detail about referring to Classification Code #7566 is a nice touch, and it's one of those too-perfect, no-way-to-verify touches that a mediocre writer would add to their novel or screenplay.
Finally, there's all of this scientific mumbo jumbo, then the last sentence could have been written by a ninth-grader trying to finish their essay on time and meeting the minimum word requirement! I mean, "Impact is estimated to occur on September 28, 2015, near Houston, Texas" is so anti-climactic as to be comical, really. All of this build-up to puff of wind? "Near Houston" is too general of an area, and with the surface of the Earth being so immense, the chances of the center of impact being directly over or near a major US city is really stretching the odds, in my opinion.
Chins up, preppers. Although this doesn't appear to be legit, I haven't had to time to disprove others! So, keep your ears to the ground and your eyes to the stars!