Dark Matter News, 11/16/2020

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DARK MATTER NEWS 11/16/2020 1) EXORCISMS in 2020?

Yes,

They are More frequent in US than ever (If you think the world needs an exorcism you are not alone. Brazil is a particular hot spot for exorcisms, sometimes featured on televised broadcasts of church services. Priests wave their hands over a person deemed to be possessed, shout orders for the devil to depart, then hold their hand to the person’s forehead and push them backward, occasionally resulting in their collapse. San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone says the exorcism prayers in Latin, remarking that “Latin tends to be more effective against the devil because he doesn’t like the language of the church.” The prayers were different from those offered when a person is believed to be the subject of demonic possession.

2) You can see every planet in our solar system this week – CNN This week, there will be some not so familiar sights in the sky: Seven planets will be visible at various points in the day. Venus and Mercury are bright enough to see in the mornings, while Mars, Jupiter, Neptune and Saturn will be easier to see at night. You may have noticed the planets seen in the sky are always near the ecliptic, which means, in other words, the solar system is rather flat, with all its major parts moving in nearly the same plane. Why is the solar system flat? According to conventional science, the original cloud that became our solar system was spinning, and this spin caused it to flatten out into a disk shape. The sun and planets are believed to have formed out of this disk, which is why, today, the planets still orbit in a single plane around our sun. But an even bigger question; Is the universe flat? The exact shape is still a matter of debate in physical cosmology, but experimental data from various independent sources (WMAP, BOOMERanG, and Planck for example) confirm that the universe is flat with only a 0.4% margin of error. and finally

3) APOPHIS THE GOD OF CHAOS DIDN'T CANCEL THE ELECTION BUT WHAT IF IT COMES BACK? THIS QUESTION WAS ANSWERED BY SYFY.COM'S CASSIDY WARD: Credit: University of Hawaii

THE ASTEROID APOPHIS ISN'T LIKELY TO HIT EARTH. BUT IF IT DID, WHAT COULD WE DO? @cassidyward https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/asteroid-impact-apophis-hit-earth-science In the very, very unlikely chance it did hit Earth, though, what could we do about it? PLANETARY DEFENSE The Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory tracks all known NEOs and their impact probabilities so we can act quickly if the need arises. Let’s imagine, then, we draw the cosmic short straw and our new calculations put Apophis firmly in the "It’s-Coming-For-A-Visit" category and we had years to prepare and prevent the impact, what could we do? The obvious and most sure answer for something like Apophis is to evacuate the area. An object of that size wouldn’t threaten humanity on the whole but it would be devastating for a considerable portion of the planet. If we can’t stop it or change its trajectory, we would need to get out of the way. An effort of that scale would require global cooperation as millions of individuals would become the first space-driven refugees. And depending on the asteroid’s size, density, speed, and angle of approach, such an evacuation might not even be feasible.

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