Frame grab from a Youtube video of the brilliant meteor that flared over Australia overnight.
Posted on 07/10/2014 5:50:54 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Meteor flies across Melbourne skyline part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS0EA15eA-Y
Question: Had the soda can been uncrushed, would it have weighed more? or less?
Now, wait....everybody knows that apound of feathers weighs less than a pound of lead.
Or at least, choose the feathers, if one or the other is going to be dropped on your toes.
precisely the same sort of object I saw over Norther California several months ago
it was astonishing. I was so amazed by it that I neglected to grab my camera ...
I guess it speaks to the era I grew up in, or my paranoia, that whenever I see one of these I worry it's going to be the re-entry vehicle for a hydrogen bomb....
it probably would have weighed less if it had more exposed surface areawhile falling... more material would have ablated from it. I am no rocket scientist though...
I remember seeing the shuttle.....coming over back several years ago/
the most amazing pinkish orange thing ive ever seen
that would have come close to freaking me out if I hadnt heard about the route it was supposed to be taking and its likely time of appearance
I remember Richard Basehart ****TRYING**** to recite Pindar’s “Ode to Fire” at the close of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Peter Jennings—a nice Canadian guy, but he should stick to DeCaf—wouldn’t SHUT UP!!! at the ultimate moment of the Olympics while this subtle classic from the ancient world was being recited as the Olympic Flame was being extinguished.
ChatterChatterChatterYammerYammerYAMMMEEERRRR!@!^!*!#
I’m WAY someone else.
Are we talking weight, or mass?
You too, huh? Hell of a time to grow up, in some ways.
CC
African or European?
I still had the file open. I “inned” in.
Sure are.
After 30 years, it is time to let this go.
Peter Jennings has.
“After 30 years, it is time to let this go.
Peter Jennings has.”
Yeahbut, I never got to hear Pindar’s Ode to Fire.
Just a little tip: if you see something “moving slowly” toward you from the sky...and after a little while it appears to “not be moving” then it is in reality actually moving precisely toward you.
Appearing stationary is an optical trick by moving objects when you have no frame of reference (e.g. ships at sea).
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