Comet Madness: How the 1910 Return of Halley's Comet (Almost) Destroyed Civilization PG_Gift_Guide McGreal tells the story

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Comet Madness: How the 1910 Return of Halley's Comet (Almost) Destroyed Civilization PG_Gift_Guide McGreal tells the storyHalleys Comet visits the earth every seventy five years. Since the dawn of civilization, humans had believed comets were evil portents. In 1705, Edmond Halley liberated humanity from these primordial superstitions (or so it was thought), proving that Newtonian mechanics rather than the will of the gods brought comets into our celestial neighborhood. Despite this scientific advance, when Halleys Comet returned in 1910 and astronomers announced that our