Comet Madness: How the 1910 Return of Halley’s Comet (Almost) Destroyed Civilization - Richard J. Goodrich Audiobook
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Halley’s 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 Halley’s Comet returned in 1910 and astronomers announced that our planet would pass through its poisonous tail, newspapers gleefully provoked a global hysteria that unfolded with tragic consequences.
In Comet Madness, author and historian Richard J. Goodrich examines the 1910 appearance of Halley’s Comet and the ensuing frenzy sparked by media manipulation, bogus science, and outright deception. The result is a fascinating and illuminating narrative history that underscores how we behave in the face of potential calamity – then and now.
As the comet neared Earth, scientists and journalists alike scrambled to get the story straight as citizens the world over panicked. Popular astronomer Camille Flammarion attempted to allay fears in a newspaper article, but the media ignored his true position that passage would be harmless; weather prophet Irl Hicks, publisher of an annual, pseudo-scientific almanac, announced that the comet would disrupt the world’s weather; religious leaders thumbed the Bible’s Book of Revelation and wondered if the comet presaged the apocalypse. Newspapers, confident that there was gold in these alternate theories, gave every crackpot a megaphone, increasing circulation and stoking international hysteria.
As a result, workmen shelved their tools, farmers refused to plant crops they would never harvest, and formerly reliable people stopped paying their creditors. More opportunistic citizens opened “comet insurance” plans. Others suffered mental breakdowns, and some took their own lives.
Comet Madness reveals how humans confront the unknown, how scientists learn about the world we inhabit, and how certain people—from outright hucksters to opportunistic journalists—harness fear to produce a profit.
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This post has 8 comments with rating of 4/5
June 6th, 2023
be nice if it returned in 2023. All the Republicans would take it as a sign of the endtimes and drink the kool-aid.
June 7th, 2023
@avatarofshadow it’d be nice if liberals would just wake up and live in the same universe as everyone else, comet or no.
June 7th, 2023
It would be nice if both the far right and left would hitch a ride on that comet and let the rest of us live in peace.
June 7th, 2023
@brighthammer Your surgeon called and that mass in the xrays of your brain is a giant tumor that has rendered you incapable reasoning or the ability to think for yourself.
June 7th, 2023
There is probably a good book to be written about the Haley’s Comet panic of 1910. It was an early example of a media-launched moral panic, and some very worrying things came out of left-field (especially in the Mid-West).
But this isn’t that book. It starts with the Glass Mountain virgin-sacrifice (which almost certainly never happened, and has been debunked so many times it gets tedious). Then it chitters on into a farrago of true, possibly true, and downright preposterous stories hardly any better than the original fake news fest.
‘Comet Madness’ certainly doesn’t ‘reveal how humans confront the unknown,’; it performs a rudimentary nudge and wink job reassuring its readers that folk now are so much smarter than they were in 1910.
They aren’t, cicumspice.
June 8th, 2023
Thanks Mojo…and pryderi!
June 8th, 2023
Thanks for the upload, and for pryderi’s warning. I took a look at the GR reviews and it seems that several people are dubious on the accuracy of this book.
June 10th, 2023
This is without a doubt the dumbest f’king book I’ve ever encountered. Just repeats the same dopey anecdotes over and over throughout the entire book. Utter tripe.
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