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Ludi
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Cool!
My husband said "What, it isn't going to hit Sarah Palin on the head? And they'd blame it on the gays..."
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| Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 7:56 pm Post subject: Re: Ten foot wide meteor to hit Earth tonight |
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Dang it all, why can't it happen where I can see it?
All that aside a 3 meter rock is pretty significant, wish we knew before hand what it is made of. If it is nickle-iron they might find a good size chunk on the ground tomorrow early morning. Iron has a reasonable heat capacity and has a tendency to hold together where an icy or carbonaceous chondrite asteroid would tear apart from aerodynamic forces. Rocky bodies are sort of unpredictible, some of them are amalgamations that fall apart easily while others are solid masses that melt and ablate like the nickle-iron ones do.
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RedStateGreen
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| Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 8:08 pm Post subject: Re: Ten foot wide meteor to hit Earth tonight |
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Hey, Ludi, congrats on the new title!
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ReverseEngineer
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| Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 10:29 pm Post subject: Re: Ten foot wide meteor to hit Earth tonight |
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Its the rapid increase in Entropy. Its sucking in the meteors.
Might not have to worry about the Nukes OR the Methane. Big Freaking Asteroid. The Great Bomb that God Built. LOL.
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| Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 11:10 pm Post subject: Re: Ten foot wide meteor to hit Earth tonight |
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| Too bad it isn't 1000000x bigger. |
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| Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 11:41 pm Post subject: Re: Ten foot wide meteor to hit Earth tonight |
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The sky is falling!
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ReverseEngineer
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| Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 11:52 pm Post subject: Re: Ten foot wide meteor to hit Earth tonight |
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| hubbertspeak7777777 wrote: | | Too bad it isn't 1000000x bigger. |
Doesn't need to be near that big. Probably about 10,000x would be sufficient, around 20-30 miles in diameter. BIG KABOOM!
TPTB probably know its coming. If you have a good telescope, you might want to try backtracking the trajectory of this asteroid. Maybe its just a piece of a bigger rock following behind about 6 months out. Should start reflecting some light in your telescope soon. Look for a light getting a bit bigger each night. If you see that one coming, your worries about Peak Oil and the Economy are over.
See You on the Other Side.
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| Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 2:14 am Post subject: Re: Ten foot wide meteor to hit Earth tonight |
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| ReverseEngineer wrote: | | hubbertspeak7777777 wrote: | | Too bad it isn't 1000000x bigger. |
Doesn't need to be near that big. Probably about 10,000x would be sufficient, around 20-30 miles in diameter. BIG KABOOM!
TPTB probably know its coming. If you have a good telescope, you might want to try backtracking the trajectory of this asteroid. Maybe its just a piece of a bigger rock following behind about 6 months out. Should start reflecting some light in your telescope soon. Look for a light getting a bit bigger each night. If you see that one coming, your worries about Peak Oil and the Economy are over.
See You on the Other Side.
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I don't think we're that lucky. But one can only hope. |
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| Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 2:28 am Post subject: Re: Ten foot wide meteor to hit Earth tonight |
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| Quote: | | My husband said "What, it isn't going to hit Sarah Palin on the head? |
If it did I wouldn't fancy the asteroid's chances. |
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ReverseEngineer
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| Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 2:39 am Post subject: Re: Ten foot wide meteor to hit Earth tonight |
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| hubbertspeak7777777 wrote: | | ReverseEngineer wrote: | | hubbertspeak7777777 wrote: | | Too bad it isn't 1000000x bigger. |
Doesn't need to be near that big. Probably about 10,000x would be sufficient, around 20-30 miles in diameter. BIG KABOOM!
TPTB probably know its coming. If you have a good telescope, you might want to try backtracking the trajectory of this asteroid. Maybe its just a piece of a bigger rock following behind about 6 months out. Should start reflecting some light in your telescope soon. Look for a light getting a bit bigger each night. If you see that one coming, your worries about Peak Oil and the Economy are over.
See You on the Other Side.
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I don't think we're that lucky. But one can only hope. |
Not to be outrageous in conspiracy theories, did I not read in the MSM in the last month or so that the Hubble Telescope went down? Is that not rather odd that this window to the Universe picked exactly this time to fail?
Forget looking up on Wall Street for the Falling Stockbrokers. If you have a telescope, I think you might want to keep a watch going on this one.
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alokin
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| Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 3:31 am Post subject: Re: Ten foot wide meteor to hit Earth tonight |
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| didn't the event had happened yet?? |
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| Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 3:38 am Post subject: Re: Ten foot wide meteor to hit Earth tonight |
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| alokin wrote: | | didn't the event had happened yet?? |
Supposedly, yes. There is no confirmation or pictures yet AFAIK. It's supposed to have happened over Sudan, so it's quite possible no one took any pictures. |
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| Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 3:38 am Post subject: Re: Ten foot wide meteor to hit Earth tonight |
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| ReverseEngineer wrote: | | Not to be outrageous in conspiracy theories, did I not read in the MSM in the last month or so that the Hubble Telescope went down? Is that not rather odd that this window to the Universe picked exactly this time to fail? |
And there's another quake in Tibet, too. 
Congrats on the title too, Ludi, whatever it means. Master of the new?
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ReverseEngineer
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| Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 3:42 am Post subject: Re: Ten foot wide meteor to hit Earth tonight |
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| RSFB wrote: | | alokin wrote: | | didn't the event had happened yet?? |
Supposedly, yes. There is no confirmation or pictures yet AFAIK. It's supposed to have happened over Sudan, so it's quite possible no one took any pictures. |
NOBODY in the Sudan has a Camera? With a decent size hunk of rock hitting the atmosphere, NOBODY takes a picture? No planes up there shooitng pics? What?
Why do I have trouble believing that?
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