Late last night I stopped by my gal's place and not long after I got there there was a brilliant strobe of flashing light in the sky and a large trailing sonic boom. Turns out it was a meteor about the size of a PC monitor. We weren't sure what it was until a pal told me about it and I saw it all over the news here in Seattle today.
Back in 1908 there was a meteor that exploded over Siberia known as the Tunguska Event. That was a lot larger than the one last night over Seattle of course.
This shit is for real folks, it's happened before on mass extinction levels and it will happen again. That's going to suck big time so I hope I've already jumped the great divide by then myself... If I'm still around I'd like to have a little fun with it, may as well, and get out my baseball glove and try and catch it. Any way you cut it the vast majority of us are still going to be assholes right up to the point of impact I'm thinking...
Inkblot
Flash, Boom! Lights out...
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Re: Flash, Boom! Lights out...
astonamous,
Right on! Kind of like the band the Flaming Lips...
As strange or as hard as it is to believe Earth isn't going to be around forever and neither are we. Come around 4.5 or 5 billion years from now for instance, if it isn't obliterated by an asteroid or comet impact by then, there will be several hundreds or so of them during that timeframe, they think that's how the Moon may have formed from an impact by a large object into Earth, or some other natural, human-made or new life form disaster after humans as we know them/us are long gone, which or both are bound to happen over and over again also, the Sun will have run it's course and it's hydrogen will have run out. It will then swell to become a red giant, its surface temperature cooling as its atmosphere expands to such an enormous size that it will envelop and burn up all of the inner planets, including Earth.
We'll have to planet-hop to Pluto and beyond to get away from this little problem and then turn the lights on once we get there...
Space.com is an awesome site, if you can handle all of the doom and gloom. Check out the Hubble pictures of our early Universe and other good stuff there everyone.
Inside Out.
Look, it's a bird, it's a plane... It's an asteroid the size of a small city.
Calculate An Impact.
Kinda scary huh? Sure is. But it's just a part of evolution, or God pitching us a fastball and testing our own ability to be able to cope with it. Which scenerio is more acceptable is up to you...
Inkblot
Right on! Kind of like the band the Flaming Lips...
As strange or as hard as it is to believe Earth isn't going to be around forever and neither are we. Come around 4.5 or 5 billion years from now for instance, if it isn't obliterated by an asteroid or comet impact by then, there will be several hundreds or so of them during that timeframe, they think that's how the Moon may have formed from an impact by a large object into Earth, or some other natural, human-made or new life form disaster after humans as we know them/us are long gone, which or both are bound to happen over and over again also, the Sun will have run it's course and it's hydrogen will have run out. It will then swell to become a red giant, its surface temperature cooling as its atmosphere expands to such an enormous size that it will envelop and burn up all of the inner planets, including Earth.
We'll have to planet-hop to Pluto and beyond to get away from this little problem and then turn the lights on once we get there...
Space.com is an awesome site, if you can handle all of the doom and gloom. Check out the Hubble pictures of our early Universe and other good stuff there everyone.
Inside Out.
Look, it's a bird, it's a plane... It's an asteroid the size of a small city.
Calculate An Impact.
Kinda scary huh? Sure is. But it's just a part of evolution, or God pitching us a fastball and testing our own ability to be able to cope with it. Which scenerio is more acceptable is up to you...
Inkblot
Re: Flash, Boom! Lights out...
astonamous,
The "Big Bang" theory could end with the "Big Crunch" or "Big Rip" theories where the entire Universe collapses back into itself or is torn apart in a violent display. There's so much out there that we haven't an idea about or could even understand or ever be able to process with our itsy-bitsy brains. Kind of like the dark matter that makes up a good 73% or so of space? We've figured a lot out but who knows if we're right about it or not...
I'm a huge space and star buff. I'm talking more of the real deal here and not science fiction so much, though truth is sometimes stranger than fiction.
Inkblot
The "Big Bang" theory could end with the "Big Crunch" or "Big Rip" theories where the entire Universe collapses back into itself or is torn apart in a violent display. There's so much out there that we haven't an idea about or could even understand or ever be able to process with our itsy-bitsy brains. Kind of like the dark matter that makes up a good 73% or so of space? We've figured a lot out but who knows if we're right about it or not...
I'm a huge space and star buff. I'm talking more of the real deal here and not science fiction so much, though truth is sometimes stranger than fiction.
Inkblot
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Re: Flash, Boom! Lights out...
Inkblot,
I'm too busy spying on my neighbors (I suspect they're terrorists, have to be sure) to worry about some crazy asteroid. Aren't we building a missile defense system?? I figure we just point that baby up in the sky and let her rip! Who's with me?? BRING IT ON!
cb
I'm too busy spying on my neighbors (I suspect they're terrorists, have to be sure) to worry about some crazy asteroid. Aren't we building a missile defense system?? I figure we just point that baby up in the sky and let her rip! Who's with me?? BRING IT ON!
cb
Re: Flash, Boom! Lights out...
cbreez0101,
We're all too busy with so much nonsense that it will probably impact us and we won't even know what hit us.
The one that exploded over Washington State that I was talking about wasn't even picked up on radar by most tracking systems that are suppose to pick these things up so imagine a missle coming in from a rouge state. Also, even if they did get a warning out once it was on us at a speed of 50,000 mph what do you do duck?
If that PC sized meteor wouldn't have exploded and had instead hammered into, say, downtown Seattle at even the slightest angle just think of the damage that could have done.
Most people never look up, they're so used to being beaten down that they tend to look that way too, down, and once in a while look ahead if they get a rare glimpse of hope that their life will go well or are about to traverse a staircase.
Complacency is the real killer folks...
Inkblot
We're all too busy with so much nonsense that it will probably impact us and we won't even know what hit us.
The one that exploded over Washington State that I was talking about wasn't even picked up on radar by most tracking systems that are suppose to pick these things up so imagine a missle coming in from a rouge state. Also, even if they did get a warning out once it was on us at a speed of 50,000 mph what do you do duck?
If that PC sized meteor wouldn't have exploded and had instead hammered into, say, downtown Seattle at even the slightest angle just think of the damage that could have done.
Most people never look up, they're so used to being beaten down that they tend to look that way too, down, and once in a while look ahead if they get a rare glimpse of hope that their life will go well or are about to traverse a staircase.
Complacency is the real killer folks...
Inkblot
