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Air Force remains silent after huge meteor hits near US military base
http://www.foxnews.com/ ^ | 8/3/18

Posted on 08/03/2018 5:13:30 PM PDT by BBell

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To: BBell

According to this website it was real and not terribly unusual:

https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/fireballs/


21 posted on 08/03/2018 5:32:11 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: Snickering Hound

These are not the Druids you’re looking for.


22 posted on 08/03/2018 5:33:12 PM PDT by LIConFem (I will no longer accept the things I cannot change. it's time to change the things I cannot accept.)
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To: BBell
I thought that meme was two years ago.


23 posted on 08/03/2018 5:34:25 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: BBell
A 2.1 kiloton explosion is roughly 4.6 million pounds of TNT!

The atomic bomb on Hiroshima was 15 kilotons.

That should make a very visible crater from space.

I wonder if it struck glacial ice instead of land?

Can you imagine the tsunami wave that would make if it struck the ocean off a major city?

I wonder if it exploded in the atmosphere like the fairly recent Russia meteor?

And I'll guess at least few American military officers thought the Early Warning Station was under nuclear attack!

24 posted on 08/03/2018 5:39:45 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: BBell
Mr. Kristensen argues it’s concerning there was no public warning from the US government about the incident.

There is nobody to warn in Greenland. Besides, what's the point? If the space rock is gonna hit you, it's gonna hit you. No hiding from a 20 ton rock closing at a relative speed of 24,000 m/s.

25 posted on 08/03/2018 5:41:38 PM PDT by Haiku Guy (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: Larry Lucido

SMOD ‘20


26 posted on 08/03/2018 5:42:54 PM PDT by Haiku Guy (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: BBell

Correction...

I misread the article.

I thought it said it struck 43 kilometers FROM the airbase.

No - it struck 43 kilometers ABOVE the airbase.


27 posted on 08/03/2018 5:46:26 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: zeestephen; SunkenCiv; BenLurkin

You’re assuming “they” had sufficient warning to “do something” about the impact. Assuming also that “they” were able to detect, and track the detect, and predict the crater location of the inbound object.


28 posted on 08/03/2018 5:50:08 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
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To: Reily

Would you like to know more....


29 posted on 08/03/2018 5:54:09 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy Mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: BBell

We told them to slow down. They said, “Do you think we don’t know what we’re doing?”


30 posted on 08/03/2018 5:55:23 PM PDT by TChad
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What did they want the Air Force to say?

“I give that one a 6.”


31 posted on 08/03/2018 5:59:42 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: blueunicorn6

5.5, 6.5, 6.0 and from the East German judge 9.8...


32 posted on 08/03/2018 6:04:10 PM PDT by null and void (Equality is important, but quality is paramount.)
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To: BBell

Thule is still there? What a craphole. I guess they need someplace to send USAF f***ups.

Since they closed Adak and Midway I wonder where the Navy sends theirs? Diego Garcia?


33 posted on 08/03/2018 6:06:14 PM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: Haiku Guy
"object of unspecified size"

More memes.


34 posted on 08/03/2018 6:06:18 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: BBell
Not enough energy left or too spread out to leave seismic evidence?

35 posted on 08/03/2018 6:09:30 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault ('Kill'-google,TWITR,FACEBK,WaPo,Hollywd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antifa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA)
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To: BBell

Thule joke:

An Air Force cargo plane was preparing for departure from Thule Air Base in Greenland. They were waiting for the truck to arrive to pump out the aircraft’s sewage holding tank. The Aircraft Commander was in a hurry, the truck was late in arriving, and the Airman performing the job was extremely slow in getting the tank pumped out.

When the commander berated the Airman for his slowness and promised punishment, the Airman responded: “Sir, I have no stripes, it is 20 below zero, I’m stationed in Greenland, and I am pumping sewage out of airplanes. Just what are you going to do to punish me?”


36 posted on 08/03/2018 6:11:19 PM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: BobL
The day after Art Bell died.

Art Bell died April 13, 2018. They reported how he died August 1, 2018.

37 posted on 08/03/2018 6:13:08 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault ('Kill'-google,TWITR,FACEBK,WaPo,Hollywd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antifa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA)
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To: BBell

They’ve got to figure out what to do with the little bodies first.


38 posted on 08/03/2018 6:15:38 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: GingisK

Isn’t that what area 51 is for? An alien depository?


39 posted on 08/03/2018 6:17:04 PM PDT by BBell
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To: BBell

Chicoms did it.

“China Plans To Capture An Asteroid And Bring It Down To Earth ...:
https://www.techtimes.com › Science › Space
Jul 26, 2018


40 posted on 08/03/2018 6:26:32 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 ((((("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")))))))
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