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Space Junk or a Meteor? Fireball Lit Up Midwestern Skies
The Space Reporter has this to say about a fireball witnessed by many midwesterners on Thursday night:
"The massive fireball was seen in the early morning hours in Iowa on Thursday night. At least 700 people have reported a sighting and the fireball was reported by people across the Midwest, including Iowa, Illinois, Missouri and Nebraska. However, astronomers say they are still unsure whether the fireball was the result of space debris or a meteor. Officials at the National Weather Service say they are working to determine the source of the fireball, although the leading theory seems to support a meteor was the source." CCTV footage of the fireball is great, though it doesn't stack up to the world of Russian dashcams.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SdI7KnLGN8
Missing from story.
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Yay!
It'd be nice if the CCTV link worked, too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hRKnXqAxoc
http://news.sky.com/story/1187998/meteor-mystery-as-fireball-caught-on-cctv
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SdI7KnLGN8
this video works better :)
Where did they land?
Also, did Zefram Cochrane already did his space flight?
I thought the US military a space object tracking system. Did any news agencies bother to ask them if they even detected something?
When it comes to anything important and noteworthy... Who really gives a fuck what stupid "explanations" come flying out of the asses of:
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Tell me who really nowadays gives a fuck what we are told by these parasites?
Figures it would happen over texas. All UFO activity occurs in the Southern states. There are no UFOs / alien abductions / meteors in the civilized places of New York City, or Los Angelas. I will not believe that a meteor actually fell in the skies of TX. I think it was more likely a mass delusion caused by alchohal or methanphetamines. The CCTV footage was obviously either faked or caused by a reflection of the sun off off the clouds in the upper atmosphere. Also the footage was taken by cameras in the state of Texas. Texas cameras are notoriously unreliable, and prone to biggotry.
If you read the trail dots it leaves, and translate into morse code, it would be like .. .- (dot dot (space) dot stripe)
if you translate that i reads:
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You sound like someone who lives in a hay-bale house in rural Montana.
Which begs the question: who are you stealing wifi from?
I was driving east on I-80 in Council Bluffs, IA. At the time I wondered if it was a meteor or something man made. It was bright white but had a green hue as it broke up.
I was also a bit grateful there was no earth shattering kaboom.
It wasn't over Texas. Or the South.
This is in fact a CIA / NSA "SIGINT/ELINT" satellite deorbiting after I myself brought it down with my Back Door Expertise .
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Quit dicking around with your JavaScript, Slashdot. The site worked fine before.
They should called a biologist as its obviously a flying turtle.
It'd be nice if the CCTV link worked, too.
Slash Code is written in Perl, what do you expect? The NEW "beta" Slashdot is 100 percent PHP, so we know it will actually work well.
It was in the early evening, not morning.
"Space debris my ass it's another SGC cover up. Anyone noticing how it suddenly decides to veer off?"
The above is a joke, but not the stuff below.
Someone explain to me why the strange behavior of the tail before the object seemingly veers off.
Which begs the question: who are you stealing wifi from?
No it doesn't
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
That was the top of my skull reentering orbit after my head exploded at the end of the Chiefs-Chargers game (eliminating the Steelers from the playoffs).
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
Drunken Santa miscalculated and burned up on reentry.
Silence is a state of mime.
The linked-to article is very confusing about the time of the event. The CCTV date-time stamp shows Dec. 26, 2013, at 17:43 hours. This is 5:43 PM on the day after Christmas.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
Professional Journalism has been just about killed by the Internet.
Now, for the breaking news, it's the amateurs are getting it and as far as TV, Radio, and most News Papers, it's infotainment.
Sometimes, technological advancement isn't a good thing.
The xtians that make these type of fakes are too stupid to get their lies in order before releasing their "god is great" garbage. Typical CONservatives at work.
It is moving to the left on north facing cameras, thus traveling west. Don't most satellites go the opposite way?
Let it hit Chicago!
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
I'm sure some fellow Slashdotters will respond: "No -- Bootid!"
or was it another terrorist attack foiled by the NSA , did any one actually see Will smith today?
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didn't make it to the moon, after all.
It burned up before it hit the ground, so it probably wasn't anything very big or very solid. Ice or rock, probably. Yawn.
Some space junk does make it all the way down. Titanium or stainless steel pressure tanks often make it relatively intact. Less solid stuff rarely does.
The dinosaurs were in a similar situation a while back.
At first, they had a few of these things falling from the sky, posting them on youtube, twittering them etc. Not really thinking much of it.
Little did they know, it was the only pre-warning to their extinction. Also destroying Youtube and Twitter in the process.
jesus is back!
Where are all the dash cam videos of the event? Oh wait, that is right, it didn't happen in Russia.
"Venus was at its peak brilliance last night. You probably thought you saw something up in the sky other than Venus, but I assure you, it was Venus."
It was Starbuck that burnt up in the atmosphere, but dont worry she reappeared as an angel to the colonial fleet and will in fact jump the fleet back in time during the dawn of man which is where our species will eventually descend from one of the crewmates daughter's "Hera" aka mitochondrial Eve. :-)
There aren't any studies because only the blue turtles fly; it's perfectly natural to see the green ones fall out of the sky.
... another 787.
Have gnu, will travel.
If it was space junk then it was a piece of junk in a very rare retrograde orbit (moving East to West). Footage shows the fireball clearly moving from right to left from a north facing camera. Almost all satellites and spacecraft are in prograde orbits, launched Eastward to take advantage of the earth's rotation, or in polar orbits which move in a north or south direction depending on where the earth is in the orbit's sweep.
Israel has launched five Ofeq reconnaissance satellites in retrograde orbit, and the US has launched two FIA radar satellites into an almost retrgrade orbit. There are also sun-synchronous orbits for which booster components may re-enter on a track that appears to be retrograde, but the total number of such spacecraft in comparison to the vast number of satellites, booster components and space junk in prograde orbits is miniscule.
Statistically then, this was probably not space junk, but a bolide meteor.
That was methane burn-off. Somebody got a handle on a gusher.