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Post by godotwaits on Feb 18, 2013 7:40:49 GMT -5
Not trying to go all conspiracy theory on ya. But just read another story (nbcbews) of an incident in Florida about meteors coming in. Seems like the universe has been throwing a lot of stones at us lately. There was also an incident in California. And, of course, the one over Siberia was sobering. 7000 tons can sure make one heck of an aftershock. And it's particularly sobering, to learn that all our technical know how can't really spot the 'small ones.' Particularly during daylight and when they come like kamakazees from the direction of the sun. I mean... dude... that thing made a 30 times bigger detonation than Hiroshima. No nuclear fallout, of course, but pretty damn scary just the same.
Someone flip me a phenabarbitrol thanks. Or maybe I can just make do with a nice neat shot of single malt.
Just being paranoid here.
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Post by Kramster on Feb 18, 2013 7:48:12 GMT -5
"paranoid" Is that 2 noids? Just wondering.
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Post by godotwaits on Feb 18, 2013 7:52:59 GMT -5
yeah...that cat makes me nervous too.
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Post by Marshall on Feb 18, 2013 7:54:44 GMT -5
"paranoid" Is that 2 noids? Just wondering. Yes, but it only takes an empathetic conifer to beat it. (or three nice men?)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2013 8:03:06 GMT -5
"paranoid" Is that 2 noids? Just wondering. Pair of noids!
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Post by Marshall on Feb 18, 2013 8:11:00 GMT -5
Tree of a kind
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Post by Marshall on Feb 18, 2013 8:12:16 GMT -5
Then there's always 2 pears.
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Post by godotwaits on Feb 18, 2013 8:23:14 GMT -5
sheeesh! Bunch of weisenheimers around here... fruits, tree huggers and disrespectin' technical idiots... I had my shot... and I'm going back to bed....
Discuss it amongst yourselves..
hic!
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Post by Marshall on Feb 18, 2013 8:46:27 GMT -5
There's always Radtke's favorite; a royal flush
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Post by billhammond on Feb 18, 2013 8:46:59 GMT -5
I don't mean to downplay the seriousness of the Siberian meteor, but I think all these A-bomb comparisons are nebulous -- someone apparently calculated the TOTAL energy the thing's passing into the atmosphere generated as it sliced across Russia. But if the EFFECT in any given spot on the ground were getting hit by 20 or 30 A-bombs, there would be no one alive and nothing standing.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2013 9:26:13 GMT -5
The Universe has always thrown stones but we have lately developed a propensity to jump in front of them.
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Post by billhammond on Feb 18, 2013 9:39:27 GMT -5
Of course, it is a well known fact of science that asteroids are strongly attracted to carbon dioxide.
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Post by Chesapeake on Feb 18, 2013 10:45:11 GMT -5
I don't mean to downplay the seriousness of the Siberian meteor, but I think all these A-bomb comparisons are nebulous -- someone apparently calculated the TOTAL energy the thing's passing into the atmosphere generated as it sliced across Russia. But if the EFFECT in any given spot on the ground were getting hit by 20 or 30 A-bombs, there would be no one alive and nothing standing. It seems the Russian meteor exploded in the air. I saw somebodoy opining that the destruction would have been orders of magnitude greater if it hit the ground. The real threat of course is that of an asteroid hitting the earth, like the one that apparently brought on conditions like a nuclear winter and wiped out the dinosaurs. People are saying they can be spotted far enough ahead to give us a chance to try to divert them before they hit, but I wonder.
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Post by Chesapeake on Feb 18, 2013 10:46:52 GMT -5
I'll be offline for a while. Going out to buy three tons of rice.
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Post by Supertramp78 on Feb 18, 2013 10:57:25 GMT -5
I seriously doubt we have the tech to divert a rock that is big enough to hurt us.
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Post by godotwaits on Feb 18, 2013 11:06:35 GMT -5
sheeesh! I guess we should just go out and get stoned!
Just gettin' grouchy here. But the damn thing blew out windows for miles around. Now I ask you, how many windows could there be in Siberia? Skads of people had to race to emergency rooms to get stitched back up. Kind of like mother nature's version of Kristallnacht. Imagine if one them things did a number over NYC. You know how many windows there in NYC?! Blew the roof off a zinc factory. OK OK I know... building standards in Siberia are probably substandard.
And my second noid is ... What are all the Russian drivers doing with cameras on their dashboards? Is that some kind of thing that helps them in case they don't know where they came from? A kind of reverse GPS. Or just a device to put an end to "he said/she said' after an accident. "And let's go to the videotape!!?"
Oh Lord. I think its time to go milk the cows again.
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Post by Marshall on Feb 18, 2013 11:30:59 GMT -5
I seriously doubt we have the tech to divert a rock that is big enough to hurt us. Yeah, but we can hit it with a nuke, so it'll be radioactive when it smacks into the earth.
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Post by godotwaits on Feb 18, 2013 11:36:09 GMT -5
yeah... Marsball...that's the idea. Let's start throwing stones back at the universe. We could have a real Hatfields and McCoys thing going on here...
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Post by Supertramp78 on Feb 18, 2013 11:43:22 GMT -5
The meteor in Russia blew up over Chelyabinsk, not a barren ice plain. Chelyabinsk has a population of 1.1 million. In other words, it has the same population as Dallas. You drop 30 megatons on Dallas and we all die. Not just 1,000 glass cuts.
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Post by Chesapeake on Feb 18, 2013 14:37:28 GMT -5
The theory is if you just nudge one off course a little you could get it to miss the earth. Depending on how far out, it could just be a tiny nudge because of the multiplier effect. Somebody even theorized that if intercepted far enough away, just the wee gravitational pull of a sizeable space vehicle might do the trick. Hmmm. Anyway, that's the theory, a synonym of which word is speculation.
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