More inane research
15:06 Tuesday 28 Aug 07
It is a commonly held belief that Jupiter shields Earth from comets or asteroids that might otherwise hit us. BBC
It is?
Dr Jonathan Horner, with Professor Barrie Jones, has designed a computer model that tracked the paths of 100,000 Centaurs, over 10 million years, and recorded the number of objects that would impact the Earth.
Models mean zilch. Political parties have economic models which grandiosely predict how much better we will be with them and they are always wrong.
The results showed that the numbers of Earth impact events were the same for the cases with the real Jupiter and with no planet at all.
And?
The next phase of the project for the group is to assess the impact risk posed to the Earth by objects in the asteroid belt and the team will go on to study comets that venture into the Solar System from deeper out in space.
And precisely who on this actual real earth will benefit? Whose life will be made better by this research? No-one’s, that’s who. So what’s the damn point?
