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From: kaufman@mason1.gmu.edu (Ken Kaufman)
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Subject: Re: comet collides with Jupiter
Date: 12 Jul 1994 14:16:29 GMT
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In article <CstCuK.Er6@indep1.chi.il.us> clifto@indep1.chi.il.us (Clifton T. Sharp) writes:
>In article <Css678.288@cbnewsc.cb.att.com> tischler@cbnewsc.cb.att.com (Mark D. Tischler) writes:
>>What will you be doing on July 17th?

>Preparing for the worst...

Watching the MST3K season premiere too, eh?


>>The Shoemaker-Levy 9 Comet will collide with Jupiter over the course of a

>As the comet collides with Jupiter and destroys it, and the fragments fo
>the former planet scatter in all directions, the balance of the solar
>system changes.  The outer planets begin to move toward the sun, and the
>inner planets away, as the solar system's masses act upon each other to
>restore equilibrium.  The earth, fleeing from the warmth of the sun,
>begins to freeze, and all life except for cockroaches and crabgrass
>finally ceases to exist on Rosh Hashonah, the 5555th anniversary of
>creation.

Uh, this coming Rosh Hashonah will be 5755.  Quad-5 was two centuries ago.

Or did you neglect to mention the effect of the Jovian fragments being hurled
backward in time so that they will struck (Ok, you try to find a better
tense for it than the future past!) the earth 200 years ago, and create
a paradox that will had coosen (Always wanted to find a use for future
pluperfect subjunctive) the universe to collapse upon itself and
disappear?

==Ken