seeder Posted September 27, 2016 #1 Share Posted September 27, 2016 Quote 'Biggest meteor seen for years' crashes into earth and causes HOUSES to shake as tremor terrifies thousands Thousands of people reported a bright flash of orange lighting up sky Residents in central Queensland saw the light and felt a large tremor A Harvard astrophysicist believes it was a meteor that caused the event Harvard's Jonathan McDowell estimated the meteor was a metre wide Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3808738/Harvard-astrophysicist-says-bright-flash-light-Queensland-meteor.html#ixzz4LS9FBTnc 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Habitat Posted September 27, 2016 #2 Share Posted September 27, 2016 I hope the little green men parachuted out in time. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashotep Posted September 27, 2016 #3 Share Posted September 27, 2016 A meteor lite up the sky here one night, didn't know what was going on at the time. It was like daylight out for a second or two. Thankfully no one was hurt. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Grey Posted September 27, 2016 #4 Share Posted September 27, 2016 I wonder how big the meteor has to be or how many people have to die before we start taking the threat of impacts seriously...we are way too non-chalant about giant rocks from space whipping around us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeder Posted September 27, 2016 Author #5 Share Posted September 27, 2016 Just now, Dark_Grey said: I wonder how big the meteor has to be or how many people have to die before we start taking the threat of impacts seriously...we are way too non-chalant about giant rocks from space whipping around us But what can we do? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashotep Posted September 27, 2016 #6 Share Posted September 27, 2016 I think we are constantly searching for the planet killers but there is so many of these little ones I doubt they would be easy to find or track. Even if we do find a big one headed toward us what would they do about it? Send out a nuke? If its pretty far away it would only take a tap to get it to miss us but if its close that would be more of a problem. If they destroy it we will be hit with a bunch of smaller pieces that could also do a lot of damage. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Grey Posted September 27, 2016 #7 Share Posted September 27, 2016 28 minutes ago, seeder said: But what can we do? 11 minutes ago, Ashotep said: I think we are constantly searching for the planet killers but there is so many of these little ones I doubt they would be easy to find or track. Even if we do find a big one headed toward us what would they do about it? Send out a nuke? If its pretty far away it would only take a tap to get it to miss us but if its close that would be more of a problem. If they destroy it we will be hit with a bunch of smaller pieces that could also do a lot of damage. We should be taking it more seriously precisely because we don't have an answer to that question. Too often we only discover these massive meteors days before or even after they've passed us. We know the Earth has been hit several times and we can see the surface of the moon so we know how that goes. The Earth is sitting in a "cat's cradle" of giant flying rocks and we are still flinging sticks at other each other across a pond. There is a real, existential threat out there - Aliens aren't going to unify the people of Earth but I believe meteors can. We have technologies to save the planet, the biggest tragedy of all would be to squander it out of some misplaced sense of security. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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