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Termyn8or -> RE: 100 years ago, last Monday... (7/1/2008 8:47:30 PM)
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Isn't that around the time Tesla was playing around ?
Kidding aside, the Earth is pelted all day and all night long, and million of meteorites and even a few bigger chunks are almost always disintegrated in the atmosphere, usually the upper atmoshere.
There are a number of them that get caught into orbit and just stay there. Then the ones with a trajectory headed straight for the Earth don't have it so good. They weren't just floating along, they had a relative velocity, and once they get close enough to the planet that velocity refereneced to the planet and it's atmosphere builds at 32 feet per second per second. This rapidly builds to the point where simple air resistance creates so much heat that it just burns up, or in some cases blows up.
So what you are saying is that they plotted the thing and then went to where they heard a big explosion but found no meteor there. Well, if it did explode it did not do it at an elevation of ten feet, it had to be higher than that. Otherwise the expected destruction would be there, regardless of the absence or presence of the actual meteor. Remember Crater Lake.
But that brings us to the perspective on meteors, I must agree it is true, that mathematically we are getting about due. Something big. It must be of sufficient mass to make it to the ground. Notice you don't have gravel falling on your head. You might on the moon though........
The odds of this happening yesterday, today and tomorrow are actually the same. But those odds are derived from numbers, and numbers do not lie, so I agree that we are about due, but that does not mean it is going to happen. Neither does it mean that it will not.
I could see FEMA sticking both thumbs up their ass if it happens though.
T
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