Real life Sci-fi 2013

[orbital]

moldyoldy, If this interesting and exciting tale is still in the news cycle tomorrow when it is no longer the first of April it will be a very newsworthy item indeed!

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Search: Popigai Crater

Russia again____^

 

[moldyoldy]

moldyoldy, If this interesting and exciting tale is still in the news cycle tomorrow when it is no longer the first of April it will be a very newsworthy item indeed!

sigh. I totally forgot that today was 1 April. For me it was simply Easter Monday. ... insert hook in mouth & pull ...

 

[EZO]

sigh. I totally forgot that today was 1 April. For me it was simply Easter Monday. ... insert hook in mouth & pull ...

moldyoldy, If this interesting and exciting tale is still in the news cycle tomorrow when it is no longer the first of April it will be a very newsworthy item indeed!

Too funny! I assumed you were just having some fun with the elaborately presented story on that link to see if you could get any of your CPF buddies to bite.

 

[moldyoldy]

yep, both funny and a bit sad since my own cross checks found nothing, and I know from experience that my cross-checks are not that bad.

The Focus editors now posted a subsequent comment, w/in the article, not on the first page, that (translated/gisted by me):

"Dear User, as many of you suspected, the diamond asteroid from space is not from some secret source in outer space, but sprang solely from our imagination. It is a Focus-Online April (fools) joke for 2013. If you had fun with it, that makes us happy .... We collected together some of the best/better Aprilfools jokes that other editors put together." <<link supplied on the Focus webpage>>

http://www.focus.de/panorama/welt/t...en-die-besten-scherze-im-netz_aid_951557.html

These jokes were evidently collected from various websites around the world and translated back to German - 3 pages of them! Some of them are pretty good, albeit much simpler than the Focus joke.

 

[EZO]

I thought it was a funny and clever hoax and someone obviously put some time and effort into putting all the details together for the piece. Any non deutsch "sprecheners" who might like to read the original article in question from moldyoldy's post, it can be found in the following two links which are the Google Translate versions of pages one and two. It may not be perfect English but it is certainly readable. And, hey man, don't worry about it moldy; this kind of stuff is what the heart of this day is all about.

Page #1

Page #2

 

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Bit of Update::

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24550941




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[moldyoldy]

bump. Another presumed meteor lit up the sky over Iowa/Minnesota the other day:

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/v...ay-vo-possible-meteor-lights-the-sky.cnn.html

With Christmas appearance of the Geminids, the recent CA meteor, and now the Iowa meteor, the 'sky' is restless, and the Sun is heating up for it's sunspot peak. 2014 could be exciting....

 

[EZO]

The Quadrantids Meteor Shower is just around the corner. The Quadrantids are an above average shower, with up to 40 meteors per hour at their peak. The shower usually peaks on January 3 & 4, but some meteors can be visible from January 1 - 5. Best viewing will be from a dark location after midnight. Look for meteors radiating from the constellation Bootes.
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[Steve K]

Will there be videos posted??
It's supposed to be below zero tonight, so it's hard to imagine standing around in that sort of cold in order to watch for meteors. Or is this an excuse to travel to Arizona?

 

[EZO]

Will there be videos posted??
It's supposed to be below zero tonight, so it's hard to imagine standing around in that sort of cold in order to watch for meteors. Or is this an excuse to travel to Arizona?

You'll need a snowmobile suit, a reclining lawn chair and a hip flask.

Where I live, half way up a small mountain here in Vermont I have a spectacular view of the sky but you do have a point about the cold. Then a again, I'm lucky to have a skylight above my bed so I can watch the sky (at least a small rectangle of it) as snug as a bug in a rug.

 

[moldyoldy]

on 7 Jan 2014, A class-X solar flare and a CME took place. The proton storm is past the earth. however the plasma is expected today/tomorrow. Besides spectacular Aurora, power failures are expected in the Scandinavian countries and Alaska (served by any long powerlines).

http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/sun-unleashes-first-x-class-flare-of-2014/

There was better info on European/German news sites.

http://www.focus.de/wissen/weltraum...-wird-heftiger-als-erwartet-1_id_3526836.html

2014 is now expected to produce more severe solar flares than the normal increase/decrease in the solar cycle would have predicted. We live in exciting times... :tinfoil:

 

[moldyoldy]

Tonight, Monday night, at 2100 EST, there will be a live showing of the latest rock to whiz by the Planet Earth:

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/huge-asteroid-fly-safely-earth-monday-watch-it-live-n32051

or:

http://www.space.com/24704-asteroid-2000-em26-earth-flyby-webcast.html

Are the scientists just publishing these events better, or are there more of these flybys than before? As one astrophysicist stated, the sky has quieted down, but it only takes one disruptive event anywhere in the Sun's solar system to stir things up again. "May you live in exciting times" ?

 

[EZO]

"Gold medals presented to winners at the Sochi Olympics will contain fragments of the Chelyabinsk meteorite that struck Russia last year.

The medals are not the official coins handed out in the Olympic ceremony, but special commemorative ones to be given out to the sportswomen and men who win on the anniversary of the meteor strike on February 15.

Ten medals will have a chip of the meteorite embedded in its centre, crafted by specialists at a workshop in Zlatoust, in the Chelyabinsk region, Russian media report." LINK

 

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Oct. 28th 2014



________^ ..was the Antares rocket

 

[martinaee]

Is that a bird in that image? Dang son... Get that bird to Hollywood pronto!

 

[Marcturus]

Is that a bird in that image

Sure, but can you see the alien face at the lower right of the fireball? oo:

 

[moldyoldy]

ST. PATRICK'S DAY GEOMAGNETIC STORM: http://www.spaceweather.com/

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/planetary-k-index

those CPFers in northern latitudes should be enjoying a rather spectacular evening.

 

[gadget_lover]

Real life sci fi.

I got a smartwatch for Christmas. Yesterday I used it as an MP3 player. Then I dictated a txt message and sent it. Then called my wife to make dinner plans. Then I asked it when Spock died. All without touching it, no cell phone in sight.

Samsung Gear S watch. Life is Good!

Daniel

 

[moldyoldy]

Bump. The star that keeps the Planet Earth warm aimed 3 CMEs at the planet Earth, the last CME caught up with the first two.

http://www.weather.com/science/space/news/geomagnetic-storm-hits-earth-june

regarding the recent intensity:

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/planetary-k-index


For general info on CMEs, look here.

My radio reception is definitely low. no Aurora was visible in Wisconsin yet - too cloudy. will look again tonight.

 

[moldyoldy]

an fyi for those of us that fly the Pond a lot. Fortunately I tend to take the more southern routes to Germany, so ash clouds from Icelandic volcanoes have not bothered me yet. A few flights from Schiphol to Manchester evaded the primary flight prohibitions due to ash.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-33497169

What is interesting is the use of LIDAR to detect 3 bands of ash, by altitude. The airlines have the choice of flying in the lower bands w/o restriction. I wonder a bit about the suggested method to detect the static electricity developed by the ash on the A/C skin. I suppose if the readings were normalized, it might be feasible. Nevertheless, a total flight ban across northern routes between the US/Europe is very unlikely in the future. That ban cost the airlines far too much money.