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Nothin bout the meator coming Friday?; Wheres Mr Doom and Gloom? Out 4wheeling in a geo?
Topic Started: Feb 13 2013, 01:28 PM (2,117 Views)
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Cobb
Feb 14 2013, 07:11 AM
shes married. :coffee Otherwise I would of made that comment.
---now whats wrong with a "naked eye"? gotta quote my wife here---- she says, "Shes married, not dead"..
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Cobb
Feb 14 2013, 07:11 AM
Old Man
Feb 14 2013, 01:54 AM
econboxxxer
Feb 13 2013, 07:10 PM
wonder if we can watch it with telescope at night?
says it is supposed to be within 17,000 feet of Earth. If that is true you should be able to see it with the naked eye (if you are into standing in your yard with parts of your body naked :D )
Dude, shes married. :coffee Otherwise I would of made that comment. :D

You would think something like this would make a sound or something we could even feel. If its going to pass man made satellites then it should cause a wake of some sort.

I think most hellium balloons top out at 100k feet.
Won't cause a wake if it's below the com sats. They are still very much out of the atmosphere.

Lets look at orbits to scale with the earth.

The dashed line in the blue section right by the earth is where the ISS is orbiting. That blue section is Low Earth Orbit, and it's from the edge of the atmosphere to about 1200 miles up.

The green line is where the GPS sats are orbiting

The outside dashed line is Geostationary, or a "Clarke" orbit, about 22,236 miles up from the equator. This is where your DIRECTV type sats are hanging out - any kind of sattelite dish sitting on the ground, pointed at a constant spot in the sky, is pointing at a stattelite in geostationary orbit.

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So this asteroid is supposedly going to get within 17k miles? That's pretty darn close when you think about it! But when you look at the scale... it's pretty far away.

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Yes...but who Did the math? 17000 miles isn't that much a error. And hey the Mayans could've been a fewdays off :)
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piece-it pete
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Cobb
Feb 14 2013, 11:51 AM
:popcorn As someone once posted on some obsecure message board, Foolish humans, never left earth.
Lol! The Centaurians? :)

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I'm totally awesome! I swear.

aaronvincent
Feb 14 2013, 01:40 AM
The only way to be saved is to repent and proclaim your failth to the ominscent flying spagetti monster! Quickly, before time runs out!! He is the saver of lost souls! :D
WWFSMD?

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Pfft! Both Cthulhu and the IPU, could kick the FSM's ass! Just sayin...
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00Metro
Feb 14 2013, 12:28 PM
Yes...but who Did the math? 17000 miles isn't that much a error. And hey the Mayans could've been a fewdays off :)
The myan calendar was fun while it lasted, back to the gregorian calendar...... :popcorn

I dont remember the source, but heard something on one of those boring history shows that the Romans i believe didnt count zero as there is no Roman numeral for zero and because of this time is off, lets not forget some civilizations didnt count leap year.

Its my belief these cultures that worshiped the smaller stars had some form of flight as NASA uses the stars and moons to launch craft into space. :hmm
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Old Man


I told the wife to forget about valentines day this year cause the trajectory math of the astroid is off :deal and it has been redirected by China :smackface and will hit washington DC :rocker instead of "passing by" and we will all go the path of the dinosaurs anyway. :banghead

Dont think she believes me, she seems kinda distant and kinda pissed this morning............. :oshit
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:popcorn My concern would be it getting caught in our gravity field and entering orbit, circling 6 times before it crashes into the surface.

Supposely the sun emits its own gravity field, thats what holds the 9 or so planets inline and each one has their own field as well as their moons and even astroid belts.
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Cobb
Feb 14 2013, 02:55 PM
:popcorn My concern would be it getting caught in our gravity field and entering orbit, circling 6 times before it crashes into the surface.
my concern is whether I have to sleep on the couch tonight or not. :ermm:
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Boy if folks knew how dangerous the universe was they'd probably riot every few minutes :)

I love this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jHsq36_NTU

I apologize if the music is bad, I have no sound.

Pete
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piece-it pete
Feb 14 2013, 03:13 PM
Boy if folks knew how dangerous the universe was they'd probably riot every few minutes :)

I love this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jHsq36_NTU

I apologize if the music is bad, I have no sound.

Pete
Nothing is wrong with the music, but the planets are in the wrong order.
Edited by Coche Blanco, Feb 14 2013, 06:34 PM.
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piece-it pete
Feb 14 2013, 03:13 PM
Boy if folks knew how dangerous the universe was they'd probably riot every few minutes :)

I love this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jHsq36_NTU

I apologize if the music is bad, I have no sound.

Pete
I love this song and it fits here.

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It's passing within 14,000 miles now.

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14,000 eh? That gives it more leeway to not hit a satellite. Awesome.
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Cobb
Feb 14 2013, 02:55 PM
Supposely the sun emits its own gravity field, thats what holds the 9 or so planets inline and each one has their own field as well as their moons and even astroid belts.
That's exactly how it works.
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