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Well you can expect a slow start to the Sixth Sun, and it is an alignment, every 26,000 years we reach the Dragon's Mouth, where the Milky Way has a dark spot, where the Great Serpent is eating it's tail, Oraboros.
This time we are also crossing the Galatic Plane, which happens every 35 million years, give or take a week, and two back, we lost most of our lizards. That cycle does seem to match the extinctions of record.
The Galatic Plane seems like the rings of Saturn, where the spare parts hang out. We bobble up and down.
There has been a lot of astronomy directed at the trans Neptune non planets, there is more than Pluto out there, and they are moving. There is something getting a lot of interest, and no one is talking.
A 26,000 year comet would spend most of it's time just hanging out there, and not much going around the sun. Most comets are spotted after they pass the gas giants and light up.
The long period comets we know have been very predictable, and period does match size, a 26,000 year would be huge.
Comets produced fear in our recent past, some large ones seem to be recorded when they were an unknown, large and non returning, and shown in paintings as being seen in the day time. We have not had any like that.
I guess I just look on the bright side, the oldest stories say, "His passage cleanses the earth, and brings a thousand years of peace."
The history of the earth has been a special interest of mine, and it is a cycle, nine extinctions, metors in waves, but the earth survived, and so did people, not all of them, but enough.
I see it like Cowboy Bebop, an age of meteor rain, coastal cities smashed, and the survivors get used to it.
No one in Earth Science would say, there will never be another big quake in California, that the New Madrid fault will not be the largest quake we have known, and soon, or that the Yellowstone Caldera will never erupt again.
Our relationship with the Solar System, and it in the Milky Way, will continue.
There was a planet on the other side of Mars, until fairly recently.
well yeah, pointing it out this way makes me piece together what ya said earlier a bit better. I tend to regard old stories/tales as just that, stories, especially because of how imagery was used in ages past. For all we know, the star of Bethlehem was a nova XD.