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The recently discovered object, known as comet ISON, is due to fly within 1.2 million miles from the center of the sun on November 28, 2013, said astronomer Donald Yeomans, head of NASA's Near Earth Object Program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. [^]
Western tradition sees comets as harbingers of doom and as omens of world-altering change.
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Henize wrote: Western tradition sees comets as harbingers of doom and as omens of world-altering change.
Curious. I've seen this far more prevalent in Eastern traditions. Most of the Western cultures have often failed to look up.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: Most of the Western cultures have often failed to look up.
They will look down into their screens to see it.
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It means I'm going to prevail over my enemy!!
And it must be true, they see it as an harbinger of doom, the heavens are in agreement!
Although, alternatively, I could say comet don't shine for men, they do for.. Dragons!!
They are coming! (back!)
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Where do you get such good enemies? Mine never see it coming and are clueless to what happened to them afterwards.
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I'm provoking them!
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Only if the comet is red
Sorry my bad english!
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Henize wrote: Western tradition sees comets as harbingers of doom and as omens of world-altering change. They are[^]
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As for the title's "outshine the full moon"...FTFY
The sun shines out of my arse so outshining the moon is built-in shall we say.
"I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot." — Ramón Maria Narváez (1800-68).
"I don't need to shoot my enemies, I don't have any." - Me (2012).
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I'm still waiting for Comet Kohoutek[^] to put on the show we were promised!
It's well known that if all the cat videos and porn disappeared from the internet there would be only one site left and it would be called whereareallthecatvideosandporn.com
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