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A comet arrived from the mysterious depths of the Cosmos, and it cuts
the Earth’s orbit instilling terror into inhabitants of a city. In
the picture we see how in the niches of the dome of the sacred tower
stone sages, the guardians of the temple, are frozen to stillness.
The city is waiting: they would reveal the secret meaning of this
sign from heaven… We see that one of these statues moved and raised
its hands toward the sky praying unto God for the forgiveness and
deliverance from universal disaster. People took notice of comets
from time immemorial. One cannot but observe in the sky such a rare,
and hence, appalling sight, much more terrible than any eclipse,
when in the sky a vague luminary is visible, sometimes so bright
that it could blaze even through clouds outshining even the moon,
and from bowels of the unwanted celestial visitor enormous tails
erupt. Not without a reason in the Middle Ages comets were
considered as a bad omen of wars and epidemics. For example, the
Norman invasion of South England in 1066 was associated with the
appearance of the Halley’s comet. Fall of Constantinople in 1453 was
also associated with appearance of the same comet. This wonderful
newcomer arriving from the depths of the solar system can be seen
practically only once within a span of man’s life. The comet made
its appearance every 76 years, with amazing regularity. Mark Twain,
an admirable American writer, the author of The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn, came into the world in the year 1835 when the
Halley’s comet shone in the sky. A year before his death he said, “I
came to this world in 1835 together with the Halley’s comet, and I
expect to leave together with it.” So it happened. The widely known
Halley’s comet could be a perfectly suitable candidate for the role
of a alien celestial body having intruded into our Solar system by
order of some another cosmic civilization far surpassing humankind
in its development. Indeed, when comets approach the sun,
considerable part of the material contained in them is spent on
formation of tails. However, after disappearing from the sky, comets
later arrive again. Well then, somewhere in celestial workshops
unknown to us they restore, or rather, recover their matter. Over
millennia someone gathers information about our Solar system by
means of these peculiar probes-comets. …Perhaps, Marc Twain came to
us from another civilization too? |
