(June 29, 2015 at 10:48 am)popsthebuilder Wrote: Don't know. Maybe a meteor will hit the earth and literally set it a blaze. Or maybe we could be struck hard enough to be forced from our orbit.
Which in turn will also set the world ablaze
Since meteors are the glowing trails of excited particles left behind from (usually cometary) dust burning up in the atmosphere, they never hit the Earth, by definition. Meteorites hit the Earth all the time, mostly into the sea, but these rarely exceed a few feet in size and the overwhelming majority are on the order of millimetres. I think what you have in 'mind' are asteroids or comets.
And planetary orbits don't work the way you describe. An object of sufficient mass and/or energy to knock a planet from its orbit would also vaporise it. Setting the world ablaze if you like, but it would leave very little for Jesus to rule over, nest-ce pas? Put very, very, See-Spot-Run simply, you would need an object of planetary gravitational mass to settle nearby and disrupt Earth's orbit. Even then, we're more likely to be thrown out of the Solar System than inwards towards the Sun, simply because the range of possible escape vectors is so large. In other words, we're far more likely to freeze than fry.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
