Posted on 07/26/2019 6:30:31 AM PDT by Red Badger
In fairness, 2019 NotOK would have been much scarier.
Anything bigger than a basketball is scary.................
There is a great book called Red Thunder in which-—
Spoiler alert!!!!
-—A horribly autistic guy invents a device that allows close to speed of light travel for virtually no cost. At one point a “meteor” slams into the Atlantic ocean off the Florida coast at almost the speed of light, causing terrible mayhem. Turns out it was terrorists that left a few years before and then turned around and came back on a suicide mission.
But the point was that is something is headed toward us at the speed of light, or close to it, we’ll never see it coming, no matter how big it is.
Of course, light speed travel is believed to be impossible, but nobody really knows how close to it you could get.
What about a meteor going half the speed of light?
E=MC^2...................
Imagine the ones we never detect.
Have they determined, yet, how this is President Trumps fault?
Yes, he was breathing...................
I am under the impression that we believe that if you could achieve the speed of light, time would stop for you. That means that, from your perspective, you could travel through every point in the universe - even if it is infinite - in a single moment in time.
*ping*
Emily Lakdawalla: “It is NOT failure to leave academia.”
And she’s smokin’ hot.
Too young, too married. Story of my life *sigh*
Are we still talking about animals?
Are we still talking about ASTEROIDS! My bad.
All that matters is.. Do you trust God?
*ouch*
Won’t happen. Where would the energy come from to accelerate a rock to a significant percentage of c?
You Never
Hear the
One that
Gets You!
Read something like that
World of the Chernyi. A whole series of books - very post-apocalyptic.
In this case, the earth and the moon are sideswiped by ancient alien space junk. It was different if for no other reason than it isn’t about an asteroid/EMP/Evil mad scientist....
Grand adventures follow.
The big concern is more than just a meteor impacting the ground. There’s always a chance a meteor about 30-50 feet wide could enter the Earth’s atmosphere at 34,000 mph and then explode just over a mile off the ground with the explosive force of a W80 nuclear warhead (150 KT yield). If that happens over a city everything within a 1.5 mile radius of the explosion point will be destroyed.
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