I think some people should read the Black Swan. And also read up on Chaos Theory. They can calculate all they want but it will miss.
The Kraken finally got released.
Y’all are safe. With the way my luck has been running lately, if it’s going to hit anyone, it will be hitting me.
The wish list for the area for it to hit is a volume into itself.
I remember Bill Lee of the Red Sox, after pitching a very short complete game: “With Skylab falling, you have to pitch faster.”
Chinese rocket? I predict it hits either Dallas or Tallahassee.
I remember the Skylab scare very well. It was the summer of 1979, if I remember correctly. I remember people out on their decks with binoculars trying to spot it. People were also having “Skylab parties” while wearing construction hard hats. This was somewhat tongue-in-cheek but if I remember, the government could not say where the debris would land so people had the notion that the wreckage could very well land on their house and in their backyard.
I remember as a teenager in Spokane, there were a couple of guys who made a joke about Skylab falling...and made some money off it.
They decided to market the “Official US Government Skylab Target”. It was basically those words on a white background with a red bullseye target. The premise behind it was that since the government is incapable of doing ANYTHING right (remember, it was the Carter Administration at the time, so...), if you had their ‘target’ on you, you, your house, or anything you put it on was 100% guaranteed that you and your stuff would NOT be hit.
They sold posters, t-shirts, and other paraphernalia. They even painted the same thing on the side of the building they were renting a space in.
I actually went to their place and bought a poster. I went to Maine that summer to visit relatives and I took it with me. I placed it on the door of the outbuilding I stayed it. Everyone thought it was amusing.
Of the last three orbits Skylab took, two of them crossed over Maine. I remember seeing the graphic in the Bangor Daily News the day before.
It didn’t hit me, so it must’ve worked.
Who’s lifetimes are we talking about? Skylab weighed something like 85 tons when it dropped with only a little warning.
SNL, back in the day, featured Belushi going beserk in a funny bit on the news segment about being hit by Skylab.
i thought that was the UniParty Coup and Insurrection...silly me
Someone COULD calculate the odds of it hitting you, but I think the odds would be 1 in (a number with a “...zillion” in it that I never heard of) so... meaningless.
Well, that’s good and nuts. Skylab was 150 tons, btw.
Chelyabinsk Meteor: A Wake-Up Call for Earth
By Elizabeth Howell
[snip] “The asteroid was about 17 meters [56 feet] in diameter and weighed approximately 10,000 metric tons [11,000 tons],” Peter Brown, a physics professor at Western University in Ontario, Canada, said in a statement. “It struck Earth’s atmosphere at 40,000 mph [64,370 km/h] and broke apart about 12 to 15 miles [19 to 24 km] above Earth’s surface. The energy of the resulting explosion exceeded 470 kilotons of TNT.” [/snip]
https://www.space.com/33623-chelyabinsk-meteor-wake-up-call-for-earth.html
It’s ok, the Chinese have bought enough media and politicians that this really isn’t an issue, (unless it hits you).
For some reason, even though I remember everyone talking about it, I don’t think I realized what in the world it was all about.
I’m astonished to find out now. Wow. I really was a blank back then.
“The largest object to strike Earth in our lifetimes “
Only if you’re 7 years old. The Chelyabinsk in 2013 was estimated at 12,000 tons.