🏛️ Politics 3h ago · Will Dunn

An approaching comet augurs a Burnham ascendant

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Humanity has attempted to read its fortunes in the movements of celestial bodies for thousands of years, with mixed results. Horoscopes are obviously a scam, but there are things in the sky we can’t explain. Take the comet Tempel 2: a lump of rock and ice about ten kilometres across, flying through space at a speed of 17 km/s. It takes a little over five years to orbit the sun, and has been observed regularly from Earth since it was discovered by the German astronomer, Ernst Wilhelm Tempel, in 1

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