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Large-ish Meteor Hits Earth... But No One Notices (discovery.com)
According to data released by the Fireball and Bolide Reports page of NASA's Near Earth Object Program, a large meteor exploded far off the coast of Brazil on February 6, 2016. The meteor was the largest atmospheric impact recorded since the famous Chelyabinsk bolide that exploded over Russia in 2013. Although the Feb 6 meteor didn't cause any structural damage, the meteor unleashed an energy equivalent of 13,000 tons of TNT exploding instantaneously.
Whoosh!
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
Back in the 80s, I seem to recall wire services carrying reports of a "mushroom cloud" over the ocean. It was reported by commercial pilots, probably reliable witnesses not inclined to make up things for jokes.
Speculation was undersea volcano, unusual thunderstorm convection, and impact. I don't recall them following up on it, and I think it remained a mystery... let's see if I can track this down in a few minutes before hitting submit....
Oh wow, it was easier than I thought it would be. Here's the original story.
It was the 3rd google hit for "pilots spot mushroom cloud". Would that all my searches were that easy.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
East of Java by some 23000 mi. back in the late 1800s. No one noticed that was caused by a falling rock, hurled by the FURRY OF GOD!
Someone noticed, or we would be reading about it here...
If a meteor falls in the ocean, and nobody is around to hear it, did it really make a noise?
out of the entire invasion force.
The furry what of God?! Hand, friend ... ?
When the planet's surface is 60% water the meteors are going to hit water 60% of the time. As a practical point of view most of the planet is devoid of human life when you take into account the areas like Siberia, the deserts and all the water, that the odds of an meteor hitting a populated area is staggeringly unlikely.
Has Fox blamed it on Obama yet?
If it takes military technology to hear a 13 kiloton meteor go off in the ocean, then we have finally found what we need to hear a tree fall in the forest.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
..and no one heard it, did it make a noise?
Gently reply
Hits earth means it touches the water or land. Atmospheric burn up is NOT a "hit".
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Yes it is. Why would only solids and liquids qualify as Earth? And if the atmosphere is not part of Earth, then part of what is it?
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Hey dipshit, if you want to take that argument and run with it. Everything in the solar system is within Sol's (that's the sun you dipshit) atmosphere and so Earth does not have its own distinct atmosphere.
The Internet has quite reliable sources of news. You just have to figure out which ones they are. Otherwise, it is sort of a crapshoot.
Hint: The decent ones usually, but not always, make you pay to look at them, and people will actually pay money to read them.
That's why it is called a meteor and not a meteorite.
it fell in the Atlantic close to Brazil. Now, imagine if it had exploded on the water and caused a tsunami. Brazil was in the middle of Carnaval, where most people go for the coast to celebrate. That would be devastating.
"life is a joke, and someone is laughing at me"
Bolide... because you can never have enough rederivations of the same root word for entirely redundant purposes.
you are literally retarded
To be honest, this is one of those rare times where the word "literally" appears to have been used correctly.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
from the article:
"The Feb. 6 meteor most likely burned up the majority of its mass during atmospheric entry, any pieces falling as small meteorites safely into the ocean."
Nothing to see here. We need to get back to saving the planet from global warming.
Since the Spanish Meteor Network started to work full steam, each month or so there have been reports in the news of large fireballs brigtening the night sky over the Iberian peninsula. And every few years about really big superbolide ones.
Even when every station is able to detect them only up to 500km away at best. the network reports 500 bolides every year, the lastest one this same week
The sky is falling, but nobody is looking.
the meteor unleashed an energy equivalent of 13,000 tons of TNT exploding instantaneously.
As opposed to the other kind of TNT explosion that takes aaaaages.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
Most would equate exploding with instantaneously without the explicit reference. However it is carnival in Brasil, so perhaps that slows things down?
I mean, the one that nearly trashed Chelyabinsk was the most recorded bolide to date, but this one was in the middle of the South Atlantic.
First rule of holes; When in one, stop digging.
To you. Most people I know (here in Hollywood) openly mock it.
Way too many countries manipulating the information on the internet, and with so many countries and individuals with capabilities to hack what once could have been considered otherwise credible sources to their own end, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to instead explore the world around you firsthand and figure out your own truths rather than waiting for *cough cough bs* 'credible' *cough cough* sources to tell you what it is.
Note how I have bad karma and am marked down for suggesting the internet's not credible...
The mechanics of a system which perpetuates itself more than it does respect the perspectives of an individual, and 'votes' dissenters down to quiet them in a a weird form of peer pressure.
If it hit Rio de Janero, it might have sanitized that scum hole for the olympics; yet a bit too late!
Sorry. I was too busy looking at my phone to notice anything going on around me. Hold on, I got check my Facebook. *car swerves around me and explodes into a telephone pole*
To be honest, this is one of the rare times where you are literally correct :).
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See how quickly I got modded down down based purely because the mod disagreed with my opinion? Insight is not based on how much you agree, or disagree with somebody's, it is based on the relevant facts that you bring to the table.
I may not like what you said, but if you are bringing facts to the table that may open somebody else's eyes to your point of view, then you have brought insight. But no, the average Slashdotter (who is smarter than average, btw - or at least that is what they like to delude themselves with) abuses the mod system to push opinions and agendas.
Point proven.
Now, DO AWAY WITH THE POINTLESS MODERATION SYSTEM!!!!!!
YES, I AM FUCKING YELLING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm still trying to figure out how to take that remark. ;-) Should I take it literally?
"So long and thanks for all the fish."