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BushMasterBoy
03-04-2023, 22:47
Luckily no one was killed. Imagine this going through the cockpit of Air Force 1? Or the cooling tower of a nuclear power plant? Or the Pantex plant? It would completely destroy the Space Station. JFC (wish me luck)

https://www.space.com/nasa-confirms-meteor-over-texas-feb-15-2023



Per Ardua ad Astra
rondog
03-05-2023, 04:07
Just think - the possibility always exists, 24/7/365, that some friggin' rock or something else coming in from "out there" could crash into your life somehow! Hit your house, vehicle, neighborhood - whatever. A very slim chance, but it's still possible
O2HeN2
03-05-2023, 10:55
Just think - the possibility always exists, 24/7/365, that some friggin' rock or something else coming in from "out there" could crash into your life somehow! Hit your house, vehicle, neighborhood - whatever. A very slim chance, but it's still possible

Yup. Just like the dinosaurs found out.

O2
BPTactical
03-05-2023, 11:43
It can’t arrive quick enough IMO…..
rondog
03-05-2023, 16:37
It can’t arrive quick enough IMO…..

Reset.....
eddiememphis
03-05-2023, 18:04
It didn't hit Texas with that much energy, it hit the atmosphere and broke up.

It was estimated at 1000 pounds and traveling at 27k miles per hour. That is 24 billion foot pounds of energy.

That is an amazing amount of energy. If a larger rock were to impact the ground at that speed it would be incredibly devastating.
flogger
03-05-2023, 18:39
If Earths atmosphere was thinner (e.g. climate change, carbon emissions, ozone depletion), we would look like the moon. Or should I say WILL look like the moon!

Ban gas stoves now!
kidicarus13
03-05-2023, 19:46
If Earths atmosphere was thinner (e.g. climate change, carbon emissions, ozone depletion), we would look like the moon. Or should I say WILL look like the moon!

Ban gas stoves now!Ban Tannerite now! I'm sure it has some negative effect ...some how, some way.
BushMasterBoy
03-05-2023, 21:17
Three types of asteroids, irony, stony and icy. It looks like it was a stony or silicaceous. The irony type is usually mostly intact upon impact. A large one can produce a EMP. And it can knock out the grid. The last one we know of is 50,000 years ago. It hit Arizona.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_Crater
Clint45
03-06-2023, 17:54
We usually fail to detect smaller asteroids until the day before impact, if that.
rondog
03-07-2023, 01:07
Russia seems to catch hell now and then - the Tunguska event of June 30, 1908, and the Chelyabinsk event of Feb 15th, 2013. If that happened here people'd lose their fuckin' minds! Probably start screaming about banning guns all over again.
BushMasterBoy
03-07-2023, 01:19
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBWbpFz3wac
NFATrustGuy
03-07-2023, 10:13
Three types of asteroids, irony, stony and icy. It looks like it was a stony or silicaceous. The irony type is usually mostly intact upon impact. A large one can produce a EMP. And it can knock out the grid. The last one we know of is 50,000 years ago. It hit Arizona.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_Crater

I fly over the Winslow crater pretty regularly. If we happen to have a flight attendant in the cockpit as we fly over, I point out how close the meteor came to taking out the nearby town of Winslow. It?s pretty funny to see how they react.