Posted on 08/03/2018 5:13:30 PM PDT by BBell
A meteor hit the earth and exploded with 2.1 kilotons of force last month, but the US Air Force has made no mention of the event.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirmed an object of unspecified size travelling at 24.4 kilometres per second struck earth in Greenland, just 43 kilometres north of an early missile warning Thule Air Base on the 25th of July, 2018.
Director of the Nuclear Information Project for the Federation of American Scientists, Hans Kristensen, tweeted about the impact, but America’s Air Force has not reported the event.
Mr. Kristensen argues it’s concerning there was no public warning from the US government about the incident.
“Had it entered at a more perpendicular angle, it would have struck the earth with significantly greater force,” he writes on Business Insider.
Mr Kristensen points to the example of the Chelyabinsk meteor, a 20-metre space rock that exploded in the air over Russia without warning on the 15th of February 2013.
It was the size of a house, brighter than the sun and visible up to 100 kilometres away.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
According to this website it was real and not terribly unusual:
https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/fireballs/
These are not the Druids you’re looking for.
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!
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.
SMOD ‘20
Correction...
I misread the article.
I thought it said it struck 43 kilometers FROM the airbase.
No - it struck 43 kilometers ABOVE the airbase.
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.
Would you like to know more....
We told them to slow down. They said, “Do you think we don’t know what we’re doing?”
What did they want the Air Force to say?
“I give that one a 6.”
5.5, 6.5, 6.0 and from the East German judge 9.8...
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?
More memes.
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?”
Art Bell died April 13, 2018. They reported how he died August 1, 2018.
They’ve got to figure out what to do with the little bodies first.
Isn’t that what area 51 is for? An alien depository?
Chicoms did it.
“China Plans To Capture An Asteroid And Bring It Down To Earth ...:
https://www.techtimes.com › Science › Space
Jul 26, 2018
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