Showing posts with label Earth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Earth. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Eight Ways The World Could End

We can all admit it, even if we don't like to but most mornings we wake up and ponder the destiny of the earth and wonder, will it always be the bountiful mother of life or will one day the earth be destroyed, die or otherwise. 

Asteroids, meteorites and comets they are the most imminent solar worry, an asteroid over 50 miles in diameter would pretty much wipe out all higher life forms on the planet. 

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A gamma ray burst, solar flare or quasar could also do the job. A gamma burst could literally be powerful enough to annihilate our entire solar system including the sun.  


Black holes, rogue and wandering, if one decided to get too close that would spell a certain doom. 

An alien invasion is also quite possible, they might drop by and milk us of all our resources and continue on their merry way. And last but not least and not even one of the eight, some fictitious man in the sky and his son may 'come back' and put an end to all of sinners and hedonists.  


Sunday, April 24, 2011

Top Five People Raised From The Dead

Okay so Jesus was raised from the dead on Easter Sunday some 2000 odd years ago, but who else has been raised from the dead. MRHP gives it's top 5 resurrectees.

Number 5
-Jan Egil Refsdahl a Norwegian fisherman who's heart stopped for 18 hours.



Number 4
-The Six Million Dollar Man


Number 3
-Charles Xavier (X-Men)


Number 2
-Bertie Ahern (little known fact he actually died and was kicked out of heaven and sent back to earth)


Number 1
-Zombies, they have to be the top resurrectees of all time

Friday, March 18, 2011

First Probe Begins Orbit of Mercury


Nasa's MESSENGER probe has become the first human probe to orbit mercury. It has traveled over 4.9 billion miles from earth in a remarkable feat of human engineering. MESSENGER which stands for MErcury, Space, Surface, ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging, reported back to earth at 9:45 pm EDT and started to transmit data. MESSENGER was launched over six and a half years ago and has used both the earth and the moon to swing and propel itself towards mercury. As it approached mercury it fired it's thrusters in a precise and calculated manner in order to escape the gravity of the sun and begin orbiting mercury. MESSENGER is designed so that one side of it, equipped with a protective radiation and heat shield, always faces the sun, whilst the instruments face the surface of mercury and collect data. MESSENGER has a number of pieces of scientific equipment which includes spectrometers, lasers and a magnetometer. This data collection is due to begin on April 4th, MRHP loves astronomical data and can't wait.