Economics will encounter gravity on its own timeline soon enough. That timeline is driven by interest rates and the laws of compound interest.
Today we summarize a much more serious topic than even markets. And for this you need a definition before we begin.
PAIR-Compliant: PAIR-compliant means aligned with the Probabilistic Asteroid Impact Risk framework — using physics-based, Monte-Carlo–validated models to plan for low-probability, high-impact celestial events. In practice, it means preparation scaled by altitude, redundancy, and quantified risk rather than fear, fiction, or guesswork.
It’s NOT like huge events don’t announce themselves. In addition to Clif High’s work on globla coastal impacts, there’s Farsight, other RV groups, and even a religious seer or two.
Big events tipping their hand in advance? Sure do — you bet. Let’s back up.
In the decade leading to the 1871 firestorm, America was in the grip of two overlapping movements: the Second Great Awakening and the rise of Spiritualism (1848 onward).
Both created an environment where visions, warnings, and premonitions were part of the public conversation. Several figures — mostly revivalist preachers and frontier visionaries — issued warnings about “great fires,” “judgment by flame,” and “Northern destruction.”
By the late 1860s, Chicago was frequently targeted in sermons as a “city of pride,” with prophetic warnings it would be “brought low by flame.” Spiritualist circles in the Midwest recorded dreams of “red skies,” “fire in the night,” and “a storm of sparks that moves like wind,” though none named dates or locations.
Among frontier homesteaders, a few letters and diaries from Wisconsin and Michigan mention a “bad feeling” about the unusually dry season of 1871, and one Methodist preacher in Wisconsin reportedly warned his congregation in mid-September of “a cleansing fire coming soon.”
None of these rise to the level of documented prophecy, but they demonstrate a cultural and intuitive sensing of danger in the months leading up to what became the Peshtigo and Chicago Fire events in October of 1871. Some of that feels oddly familiar today.
Now, we have technology. And we have orbital mechanics and new means of analysis. Though long, at over 60 pages for both parts today, this is only the first of two scenarios we’ve run.
This one is “Modeling a Southern Impact — A PAIR-Compliant Framework.”
Next week’s Northern Impact is even worse. And over 70-pages.
But hey! It’s a Bank Reserve Settlement Day and with a holiday ahead, printing presses on a roll — what’s not to love? Well, except our focus here.
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