Recent content by Spaceman Spiff

On what evidence do you deny divine, or otherwise unknown or unknowable intervention? After long investigation, the "how" may in fact turn out to be a "why". What the likelihood of that is we can't say, but we can't state with absolute certainty that there is NO "why".

Little history lesson. Good fun.

You're forgetting that in the geocentric solar system the asteroid isn't simply moving in a straight line toward Earth. It's following some strange path as it gets dragged around by the Sun. If it were slowed down a bit, the Sun would drag it a bit farther before it reached Earth and it would...