Freak fireball lights up the midwest sky !

[SteamWake]

It said the fireball was seen across parts of Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. CNN affiliate WISN-TV said that people in Ohio also saw it.


http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/04/15/midwest.fireball/

[breadcatcher101]

That's odd...wasn't there strange explosions noted on the planet Mars a few weeks ago as well?

[Chad]

Scary.

I see no official reports to what caused it.

[SteamWake]

Im going to assume it was another piece of space junk falling out of orbit.

But that may just be because I watched a TV show about just that the other day and was absolutly stunned as to how much crap falls out of the sky.

Most of the time it goes un-noticed lilke out in the middle of the pacific but once in a while a chunk plops into a farmers field somewhere.

Heh.. a funny piece of trivia when skylab crashed to earth several years ago there was great fear of devistation and carnage. Well it did fall through the atmosphere and break up. Total casualtys? One cow :haha:

[TLAM Strike]

Most of the time it goes un-noticed lilke out in the middle of the pacific but once in a while a chunk plops into a farmers field somewhere.
True, in fact IIRC there is an impact of the destructive power of 1 kt per year somewhere on the Earth. Most of the time it hits the ocean or an uninhabited region of the planet's landmass.

[frau kaleun]

That's odd...wasn't there strange explosions noted on the planet Mars a few weeks ago as well?

http://www.diet-smith.ca/war_worlds_pal_8_x.jpg

http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/8306/onozomg21.gif

[STEED]

http://www.diet-smith.ca/war_worlds_pal_8_x.jpg



Is that the new Dyson vacuum cleaner?

[Oberon]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BVoa8o9IFM

[frau kaleun]

Is that the new Dyson vacuum cleaner?

If by "Dyson vacuum cleaner" you mean "hellish thing from another world bent on your total destruction," why then yes, yes it is.

[TLAM Strike]

http://www.diet-smith.ca/war_worlds_pal_8_x.jpg

http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/8306/onozomg21.gif

have no fear, I'm coming down with a little cold so put me on the front lines! :salute:

:O:

[SteamWake]

http://www.diet-smith.ca/war_worlds_pal_8_x.jpg

http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/8306/onozomg21.gif

Okay this is really going to 'date' me but I saw this film at release in a theater with my Mom. Scared the bejuzus out of me :haha:

[Wolfehunter]

War of the Worlds is a classic. :yeah: Love them ships...

[Oberon]

Okay this is really going to 'date' me but I saw this film at release in a theater with my Mom. Scared the bejuzus out of me :haha:

I'd have been more concerned if you'd said that you'd read the original serial in Pearsons magazine ;)

[krashkart]

http://www.diet-smith.ca/war_worlds_pal_8_x.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/62/MartianUS.jpg


:yeah:



Oddly enough, the 'roid/meteor/NASA-brand kitchen sink passed overhead not far from where I live - on a night when I had to sack out early. :-?

[Oberon]

Aah, Mars Attacks! I love that film! :yeah:

[Spoon 11th]

True, in fact IIRC there is an impact of the destructive power of 1 kt per year somewhere on the Earth. Most of the time it hits the ocean or an uninhabited region of the planet's landmass.

Here's a 1 kt airburst. (http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/impacteffects/cgi-bin/crater.cgi?dist=10&distanceUnits=1&diam=6&diameterUnits=1&pdens=&pdens_select=1000&vel=17&velocityUnits=1&theta=47&wdepth=&wdepthUnits=1&tdens=2500) of 20 ft diameter iceball.

Cool calculator.

http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/impacteffects/

[frau kaleun]

Oddly enough, the 'roid/meteor/NASA-brand kitchen sink passed overhead not far from where I live - on a night when I had to sack out early. :-?

'Roid meteors are most often reported in cases of alleged alien abduction. Apparently all that probing has some unpleasant side effects.