Asteroids aren't completely random? Mass extinctions of Earth's land animals follow a cycle, study finds

[Grumblenuts]

No kidding galaxies spin. Now show that this statement you're supposedly contesting (from the OP article, not me) is false:

The solar system passes through the crowded part of our Milky Way galaxy about every 30 million years.

 

[Grumblenuts]

The solar system lies about 30,000 light-years from the galactic center, and about 20 light-years above the plane of the galaxy. Earth and its neighbors don't orbit within the plane of the galaxy but are instead tipped by about 63 degrees.


"It's almost like we're sailing through the galaxy sideways," Merav Opher, an astrophysicist at George Mason University in Virginia, told Space.com.

Emphasis mine. I suppose Meray there is also simply full of beans, huh? By "the crowded part" are you presuming they mean the center?
More (same source already linked):

"Spiral arms are like traffic jams in that the gas and stars crowd together and move more slowly in the arms. As material passes through the dense spiral arms, it is compressed and this triggers more star formation," said Camargo.

 

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Mass extinctions of life on Earth appear to follow a regular pattern, a new study suggests.

In fact, widespread die-offs of land-dwelling animals – which include amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds – follow a cycle of about 27 million years, the study reports.

The study also said these mass extinctions coincide with major asteroid impacts and devastating volcanic outpourings of lava.

"The global mass extinctions were apparently caused by the largest cataclysmic impacts and massive volcanism, perhaps sometimes working in concert," said study lead author Michael Rampino of New York University, in a statement.

Paleontologists had previously discovered that similar mass extinctions of marine life, in which up to 90% of species disappeared, were not random events, but seemed to come in a 26-million-year cycle.

Asteroids aren't completely random? Mass extinctions of Earth's land animals follow a cycle, study finds

Widespread extinctions of land-dwelling animals – which include amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds – follow a cycle of about 27 million years.

www.usatoday.com

looks like the system is somehow designed to reset itself and restart the search for whatever it is looking for...

The "system" shows no signs of design but it wouldn't surprise me if there is a debris fields orbiting the sun on a highly elliptical orbit. Like meteor showers but on a much larger scale. Sometimes we get hit, sometimes not. Nor would it surprise me if there were numerous such fields in different orbits. There's a lot we don't know.

Depends on how you define "system."

 

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Humans are hardwired to see patterns, even when they don't exist.

That is only because they know that God is hurling stones(asteroids) to screw with his juvenile delinquent creation...Humans...

Every species that has ever inhabited this planet must have believed they were the end game of G-d's design.

That's doubtful.

 

[alang1216]

The "system" shows no signs of design but it wouldn't surprise me if there is a debris fields orbiting the sun on a highly elliptical orbit. Like meteor showers but on a much larger scale. Sometimes we get hit, sometimes not. Nor would it surprise me if there were numerous such fields in different orbits. There's a lot we don't know.

Depends on how you define "system."

Quoting Bill Clinton now?

 

[alang1216]

The "system" shows no signs of design but it wouldn't surprise me if there is a debris fields orbiting the sun on a highly elliptical orbit. Like meteor showers but on a much larger scale. Sometimes we get hit, sometimes not. Nor would it surprise me if there were numerous such fields in different orbits. There's a lot we don't know.

what you are describing here sounds to me like a design in itself...

Is a crystal structure a design? Is there a designer?

 

[alang1216]

The solar system lies about 30,000 light-years from the galactic center, and about 20 light-years above the plane of the galaxy. Earth and its neighbors don't orbit within the plane of the galaxy but are instead tipped by about 63 degrees.


"It's almost like we're sailing through the galaxy sideways," Merav Opher, an astrophysicist at George Mason University in Virginia, told Space.com.

Emphasis mine. I suppose Meray there is also simply full of beans, huh? By "the crowded part" are you presuming they mean the center?
More (same source already linked):

"Spiral arms are like traffic jams in that the gas and stars crowd together and move more slowly in the arms. As material passes through the dense spiral arms, it is compressed and this triggers more star formation," said Camargo.

Except for some random objects ejected from their solar systems, all material is rotating independent of all others. The arms are areas of compression, akin to sound waves. Objects get closer together in the arms but stars are still very far apart and would have little effect on their neighbors. Nebula being compressed might continue to compress due to its own gravity, it would not interact very much with its neighbors.

 

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The "system" shows no signs of design but it wouldn't surprise me if there is a debris fields orbiting the sun on a highly elliptical orbit. Like meteor showers but on a much larger scale. Sometimes we get hit, sometimes not. Nor would it surprise me if there were numerous such fields in different orbits. There's a lot we don't know.

Depends on how you define "system."

Quoting Bill Clinton now?

Not really. If you call the system everything then it should be obvious that life and intelligence are predestined through the laws of nature. If you call the system an asteroid belt, then sure.

 

[alpine]

The "system" shows no signs of design but it wouldn't surprise me if there is a debris fields orbiting the sun on a highly elliptical orbit. Like meteor showers but on a much larger scale. Sometimes we get hit, sometimes not. Nor would it surprise me if there were numerous such fields in different orbits. There's a lot we don't know.

what you are describing here sounds to me like a design in itself...

Is a crystal structure a design? Is there a designer?

is mandelbrot fractal a design?
yes
is there a designer?
not one that sends flood because people were butt fcking each other for sure, but still...

in the grand scheme of all things, there must be a purpose to all this...
a type of machine that calculates non stop, searching for something...
god knows what...

 

[Grumblenuts]

Except for some random objects ejected from their solar systems, all material is rotating independent of all others. The arms are areas of compression, akin to sound waves. Objects get closer together in the arms but stars are still very far apart and would have little effect on their neighbors. Nebula being compressed might continue to compress due to its own gravity, it would not interact very much with its neighbors.

My how you fling sourceless facts out like some world renowned authority or something. And here I thought you were being refreshingly humble earlier when you said "There's a lot we don't know." My mistake. Evidently, that was just more of the same. I'll be sure to keep my salt shaker handy from now on

 

[Likkmee]

When will one hit DC ?

San Fran

NYC

portland,seattle,chicago

 

[Grumblenuts]

in the grand scheme of all things, there must be a purpose to all this...

None that I've noticed, which comes as a relief to me. A machine doing it seems very cheap and ugly by comparison. It's math (potentials and probabilities), that's all.

 

[alpine]

in the grand scheme of all things, there must be a purpose to all this...

None that I've noticed, which comes as a relief to me. A machine doing it seems very cheap and ugly by comparison.

if you were able to notice the purpose, you would have accomplished your purpose i would suppose...

 

[Grumblenuts]

in the grand scheme of all things, there must be a purpose to all this...

None that I've noticed, which comes as a relief to me. A machine doing it seems very cheap and ugly by comparison.

if you were able to notice the purpose, you would have accomplished your purpose i would suppose...

Indubitably, good sir.. But shirley it's not all about me..

 

[alang1216]

The "system" shows no signs of design but it wouldn't surprise me if there is a debris fields orbiting the sun on a highly elliptical orbit. Like meteor showers but on a much larger scale. Sometimes we get hit, sometimes not. Nor would it surprise me if there were numerous such fields in different orbits. There's a lot we don't know.

Depends on how you define "system."

Quoting Bill Clinton now?

Not really. If you call the system everything then it should be obvious that life and intelligence are predestined through the laws of nature. If you call the system an asteroid belt, then sure.

If each individual 'subsystem' shows no evidence of design, why should one believe that the whole is evidence of design? Interest argument though, kind of the opposite of the "God of the gaps".

 

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The "system" shows no signs of design but it wouldn't surprise me if there is a debris fields orbiting the sun on a highly elliptical orbit. Like meteor showers but on a much larger scale. Sometimes we get hit, sometimes not. Nor would it surprise me if there were numerous such fields in different orbits. There's a lot we don't know.

Depends on how you define "system."

Quoting Bill Clinton now?

Not really. If you call the system everything then it should be obvious that life and intelligence are predestined through the laws of nature. If you call the system an asteroid belt, then sure.

If each individual 'subsystem' shows no evidence of design, why should one believe that the whole is evidence of design? Interest argument though, kind of the opposite of the "God of the gaps".

Because life and intelligence is hardwired into the laws of nature.

"...were any one of a considerable number of physical properties of our universe other than it is -- some of those properties basic, others seeming trivial, almost accidental -- that life, that now appears to be so prevalent, would become impossible, here or anywhere..." George Wald

 

[alang1216]

The "system" shows no signs of design but it wouldn't surprise me if there is a debris fields orbiting the sun on a highly elliptical orbit. Like meteor showers but on a much larger scale. Sometimes we get hit, sometimes not. Nor would it surprise me if there were numerous such fields in different orbits. There's a lot we don't know.

Depends on how you define "system."

Quoting Bill Clinton now?

Not really. If you call the system everything then it should be obvious that life and intelligence are predestined through the laws of nature. If you call the system an asteroid belt, then sure.

If each individual 'subsystem' shows no evidence of design, why should one believe that the whole is evidence of design? Interest argument though, kind of the opposite of the "God of the gaps".

Because life and intelligence is hardwired into the laws of nature.

"...were any one of a considerable number of physical properties of our universe other than it is -- some of those properties basic, others seeming trivial, almost accidental -- that life, that now appears to be so prevalent, would become impossible, here or anywhere..." George Wald

What was his control?

 

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The "system" shows no signs of design but it wouldn't surprise me if there is a debris fields orbiting the sun on a highly elliptical orbit. Like meteor showers but on a much larger scale. Sometimes we get hit, sometimes not. Nor would it surprise me if there were numerous such fields in different orbits. There's a lot we don't know.

Depends on how you define "system."

Quoting Bill Clinton now?

Not really. If you call the system everything then it should be obvious that life and intelligence are predestined through the laws of nature. If you call the system an asteroid belt, then sure.

If each individual 'subsystem' shows no evidence of design, why should one believe that the whole is evidence of design? Interest argument though, kind of the opposite of the "God of the gaps".

Because life and intelligence is hardwired into the laws of nature.

"...were any one of a considerable number of physical properties of our universe other than it is -- some of those properties basic, others seeming trivial, almost accidental -- that life, that now appears to be so prevalent, would become impossible, here or anywhere..." George Wald

What was his control?

It's solved through inspection.

 

[toobfreak]

Mass extinctions of life on Earth appear to follow a regular pattern, a new study suggests.

In fact, widespread die-offs of land-dwelling animals – which include amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds – follow a cycle of about 27 million years, the study reports.

The study also said these mass extinctions coincide with major asteroid impacts and devastating volcanic outpourings of lava.

"The global mass extinctions were apparently caused by the largest cataclysmic impacts and massive volcanism, perhaps sometimes working in concert," said study lead author Michael Rampino of New York University, in a statement.

Paleontologists had previously discovered that similar mass extinctions of marine life, in which up to 90% of species disappeared, were not random events, but seemed to come in a 26-million-year cycle.

Asteroids aren't completely random? Mass extinctions of Earth's land animals follow a cycle, study finds

Widespread extinctions of land-dwelling animals – which include amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds – follow a cycle of about 27 million years.

www.usatoday.com

looks like the system is somehow designed to reset itself and restart the search for whatever it is looking for...

It's slightly more complicated than that. Part of it is true, that gravity waves within the Milky Way cause the Sun to slowly oscillate up and down along the plane of the galaxy passing through the denser central mass, but the other part is the orbit of certain bodies far out in the Kuiper Belt such as a large 10th planet which interacts with KBOs and the galactic medium to occasionally send in a rain of objects into the inner solar system.