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Asteroid near misses this week
« Reply #10 on: February 10, 2018, 02:53:43 PM »
I’m safe!

My creator said so...all these lefties here in the Northeast are screwed!
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Re: Asteroid near misses this week
« Reply #11 on: February 10, 2018, 06:15:28 PM »
Quote from: alfsauve on February 10, 2018, 02:06:45 PM
But all the geosynchronous sats are only over the equator.

Yep, give or take a little. They have to be. Many of them appear to do a figure-8 rather than stand still. But if they're also in a geostationary orbit they look like they never move.
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Re: Asteroid near misses this week
« Reply #12 on: February 13, 2018, 06:59:15 PM »
Some scientists are saying one of those asteroids could hit the Earth, just like they did in the past, but it's unlikely. I also thought it was unlikely that an elk would ever knock a helicopter out of the sky, but that happened. https://www.sltrib.com/news/2018/02/13/elk-brings-down-helicopter-in-eastern-utah/

ETA: That says the flight crew was from Australia but they were actually from Texas. And they spelled Australia wrong.
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Re: Asteroid near misses this week
« Reply #13 on: February 15, 2018, 06:57:12 AM »
Or that a commercial airliner would hit a salmon mid-air.   Juneau, AK.   
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Re: Asteroid near misses this week
« Reply #14 on: February 15, 2018, 12:10:23 PM »
In ancient Greece Aeschylus was killed by a tortoise dropped by an eagle which had mistaken his bald head for a rock suitable for shattering the shell of the tortoise. If a tortoise can fall out of the sky and kill you so could an asteroid, likely or not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeschylus
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Re: Asteroid near misses this week
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Re: Asteroid near misses this week
« Reply #15 on: February 15, 2018, 01:28:49 PM »
Aww we are all safe. The solar storm will take out all of the asteroids.  ;D ;D ;D

But what about the EMP from the solar flare? :o :o :o
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Re: Asteroid near misses this week
« Reply #16 on: February 15, 2018, 01:45:24 PM »
Regular solar flares have caused communication and navigation problems as recently as last year. Coronal mass ejections are more worrisome. One in 1859 took out parts of the new US telegraph network, starting fires and scaring the crap out of some telegraph operators. The electronics we use today are much more sensitive than telegraph wires. A tiny fraction of that amount of energy could fry anything with a microchip, which is nearly every electronic device we use.
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Re: Asteroid near misses this week
« Reply #17 on: February 15, 2018, 06:28:06 PM »
Quote from: Timothy on February 10, 2018, 02:53:43 PM
I’m safe!

My creator said so...all these lefties here in the Northeast are screwed!
True dat.

The solar event headed this way isn't supposed to amount to very much.
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/3-day-forecast
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Re: Asteroid near misses this week
« Reply #18 on: February 16, 2018, 11:02:31 AM »
Quote from: jumbofrank on February 15, 2018, 01:45:24 PM
Regular solar flares have caused communication and navigation problems as recently as last year. Coronal mass ejections are more worrisome. One in 1859 took out parts of the new US telegraph network, starting fires and scaring the crap out of some telegraph operators. The electronics we use today are much more sensitive than telegraph wires. A tiny fraction of that amount of energy could fry anything with a microchip, which is nearly every electronic device we use.

Yep. Want some fun, read the book series "Going Home" by the author A. American (short for Angry American),
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Re: Asteroid near misses this week
« Reply #19 on: February 16, 2018, 12:38:19 PM »
Quote from: ar154me on February 16, 2018, 11:02:31 AM
Yep. Want some fun, read the book series "Going Home" by the author A. American (short for Angry American),

I may check that out at some point. I still have enough books to keep me busy until next year at least, and more on the way. I was thinking this morning that if everything computerized got fried, but they eventually got the power grid up and running again, my toaster would still work. Not a whole lot more I can think of other than some power tools.
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