“Na, na, na, na-na! You missed again!”
There’s a good chance the Empire knows we’re here.
Went out at 4:30 this morning to feed my horses and saw something break up in the SW sky. It’s not uncommon to see the occasional shooting star or meteor, but I never saw one break up like that...
Rods From God test.
Ya know, since the Star Gate series went off the air, I’ve lost touch with what is really going on out there.
“... just 43 kilometres north of an early missile warning Thule Air Base...”
USAF Statement: Missed me, bitch.
The War of The Worlds
Ok, meteors don’t “strike” the earth and it doesn’t sound like this one did though the article is horribly written. Sounds like it exploded 43 km over the earth, and a liberal science group wants to blame the US Air Force.
When Mars Attacks!
False missile alert in Hawaii.
Rogue Missile launch in the north west.
Now this?
Well if you state the velocity and energy then the size, e.g. the mass is already specified and, assuming my arithmetic is correct works out to be about 28,000kgs or 28 metric tons. If this were a sphere of solid iron it would be a diameter of just shy of 2 m.
The day after Art Bell died.
...coincidence?
According to this website it was real and not terribly unusual:
https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/fireballs/
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.
Correction...
I misread the article.
I thought it said it struck 43 kilometers FROM the airbase.
No - it struck 43 kilometers ABOVE the airbase.
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.”
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?