The photographer went on a radio talk show, which broadcast it far and wide. The California Internet service provides access to the comet's page. The fact that Hale-Bopp arrival was so close to the end of the millennium is significant, Sipe says. People thought that Christ was coming back and so on. Now, the same thing is happening again.
Comet madness has a long history.
People panicked and entrepreneurs did a booming business in gas masks. 44 B.C. And both the plague of 1665 and the great fire of London in 1666 were preceded by comets in 1664 and 1665. I told them no, it's not so. Very few things are really secret, especially big things. The most common fear about comets and other objects such as asteroids is that they will hit the Earth.