Posted on 07/04/2020 6:52:44 PM PDT by BenLurkin
And here I thought it was my neighbor’s fireworks.
The neighborhood fireworks here, in a state that bans them, are unusually active this evening. I’m guessing double the norm. People letting off steam, I suppose?
You have the kind of fireworks that require guidance systems? Impressive!
“It is phenomenal how easy life on Earth can be wiped out.”
Hope it didn’t wake up you-know-who again...
When I was 7 or 8 a fireball from roughly Michigan to Penn., or New York made a huge sound like a thunder clap, late afternoon in November I believe, ‘65 or ‘66. I didn’t see it. First thing my Mom thought is that I wrecked something. The report is in Sky & Telescope magazine but I’m too lazy to search it out right now.
Here in suburban Harrisburg, PA the private fireworks being set off are at least 4 times what I ever experienced before. And many of these are professional caliber, such as a fire company would use in a show. I’m thinking the regular meat & potato folks have the bleeps of being locked down and browbeat. They’re going to let it all hang out.
Yes they can!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's the Fauci Fireball.
I'm pretty sure my neighbors triggered that alert tonight. I don't know if it is this explosive every July 4th because I usually walk to my city's show, or if everyone felt the need to buy more to replace the city's cancelled show.
that’s for sure.
A lot of human lives might be lost this year if anything breaks out witch China or blm and antifa notch it up.
But i looked up what it would take to kill ALL life on earth and it seems 2 asteroids that aren’t near us, a gamma ray of incredible proportions and I forgot the last one already :( I think a supernova.
My memory sucks
I got no sound. But the “explosion” such as it was, looked more like maybe one stick of dynamite. But 165 tons of TNT? Naaaaah!
lol
Ah, I never thought in my wildest dreams I’d see 52 so, as my nephews and nieces tell me, it’s all icing for me here on out.
Nice kids :)
Get multiple sightings and you can estimate the speed and altitude. The brightness gives an estimate of the size. From there E=0.5mv^2. Divide that by 4.184 gigajoules perton of TNT. The biggest estimate is brightness to mass.
Still an “estimate” which means nothing.
I’m really, really sorry... it was the sushi with that damn wasabi sauce... gets me in the lower GI every time.... and Murphy’s Law kicked in when someone lit a match...
There was a short story by either Niven or Pournelle where a guy in L.A. notices that moon is brighter than he’s ever seen it. A few minutes later Mars looks brilliant and later Jupiter. He realizes that the sun has flared. He makes a grocery/liquor run and hunkers down with his girlfriend and hopes for the best. Turns out it was a brief flare and basically fried the Eastern hemisphere.
Looking at the video, I saw one like that one night fly over our house some 20 odd years ago, only it lasted longer and went out of sight over the mountains.
I first noticed it while looking out my patio doors and saw the back yard light up brighter than a full Moon. I ran outside just in time to see it streak over my head. It had a roaring sound to it. I later read that it landed in the Pacific Ocean hundreds and hundreds of miles from my house.
"Inconstant Moon" by Larry Niven.
My father was an extra on that film and spent a lot of time on set (he gave tours of the mission control center for the actors.) Bruce enjoyed hitting golf balls at JSC buildings and having a good time with some blond in his trailer. Steve Buscemi was awesome and spent most of his free time talking to random people. They served lobster at the buffet for the extras. Just random data on the movie set at JSC.
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