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BadBrain
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The Great Chicago Fire of 8-10 October 1871 has inspired many theories as to its origin, one of which involves extraterrestrial origin.
I'm here referring to the theory that the Chicago Fire, together with several other nearly simultaneous major fires in the region of Lake Michigan and southern Lake Huron (most notably the Peshtigo, Wisconsin firestorm), was ignited by impact with debris from Biela's Comet (still the only comet yet observed whose orbit around the sun intersected with Earth's, and which had been destroyed by solar gravitation at or near aphelion prior to its anticipated 1845 recovery in the course of its outbound leg.)
I would just like to explore this theory, and still don't know if I'll come up as a supporter or as a debunker when I'm finished.
I would simply like to know, before I take up this task, whether or not this theory is definitively considered as pseudo-science.
I'm here referring to the theory that the Chicago Fire, together with several other nearly simultaneous major fires in the region of Lake Michigan and southern Lake Huron (most notably the Peshtigo, Wisconsin firestorm), was ignited by impact with debris from Biela's Comet (still the only comet yet observed whose orbit around the sun intersected with Earth's, and which had been destroyed by solar gravitation at or near aphelion prior to its anticipated 1845 recovery in the course of its outbound leg.)
I would just like to explore this theory, and still don't know if I'll come up as a supporter or as a debunker when I'm finished.
I would simply like to know, before I take up this task, whether or not this theory is definitively considered as pseudo-science.