Re: EXERCISE: 2019 IAA Planetary Defence Conference - Day 5 Scenario

2019-05-08 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 10:11:10AM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote: > Many exercise designers could use help coming up with useful Internet > disaster sub-plots. Bad enough to inject stress into the exercise, but not > extinction. > > All ISP tech support agents are infected, and become brain eating

Re: EXERCISE: 2019 IAA Planetary Defence Conference - Day 5 Scenario

2019-05-08 Thread J. Hellenthal via NANOG
To sum it all up... if and when ... I doubt we will worry about the internet. Food, Water, shelter and ammunition’s || that’s all else if anyone could possibly make it through. #ProblemSolved -- J. Hellenthal The fact that there's a highway to Hell but only a stairway to Heaven says a

Re: EXERCISE: 2019 IAA Planetary Defence Conference - Day 5 Scenario

2019-05-08 Thread Mark Rousell
On 08/05/2019 02:44, Sean Donelan wrote: > Of course, any fictional scenario is more likely to hit an ocean or > miss the planet. But that makes for a dull exercise. An ocean impact needn't be boring. It would potentially create megatsunamis over a possibly wide area on multiple coasts. Even

Re: EXERCISE: 2019 IAA Planetary Defence Conference - Day 5 Scenario

2019-05-08 Thread james jones
Did anyone trying calling Bruce Willis? On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 10:41 AM William Herrin wrote: > On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 11:20 AM Sean Donelan wrote: > >> The scenario was chosen to stress the partcipants, not an actual asteroid >> impact. It was a fictional scenario. This was only an exercise.

Re: EXERCISE: 2019 IAA Planetary Defence Conference - Day 5 Scenario

2019-05-08 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 11:20 AM Sean Donelan wrote: > The scenario was chosen to stress the partcipants, not an actual asteroid > impact. It was a fictional scenario. This was only an exercise. > > 60 meter asteroid impact in New York City, NY (roughly Central Park, NYC) > So what happened?

Re: EXERCISE: 2019 IAA Planetary Defence Conference - Day 5 Scenario

2019-05-08 Thread Bryan Fields
On 5/7/19 3:39 PM, Mark Seiden wrote: > excellent!  (but i was hoping this would be a swamp-draining-by-vaporization > exercise.) the matador...the matador... the matador! -- Bryan Fields 727-409-1194 - Voice http://bryanfields.net

Re: EXERCISE: 2019 IAA Planetary Defence Conference - Day 5 Scenario

2019-05-08 Thread Sean Donelan
On Tue, 7 May 2019, Haudy Kazemi wrote: For any hit, a lot depends on impactor size. With an impactor of the size that took out the non-avian dinosaurs...the site of impact probably won't matter to us if humanity is unable to deflect it. I understand the intent. Earth is still a single point

Re: EXERCISE: 2019 IAA Planetary Defence Conference - Day 5 Scenario

2019-05-07 Thread Haudy Kazemi
> > Of course, any fictional scenario is more likely to hit an ocean or miss > the planet. But that makes for a dull exercise. > For any hit, a lot depends on impactor size. With an impactor of the size that took out the non-avian dinosaurs...the site of impact probably won't matter to us if

Re: EXERCISE: 2019 IAA Planetary Defence Conference - Day 5 Scenario

2019-05-07 Thread Scott Weeks
--- s...@donelan.com wrote: From: Sean Donelan Of course, any fictional scenario is more likely to hit an ocean...But that makes for a dull exercise. - Not for some of us... ;-) scott

Re: EXERCISE: 2019 IAA Planetary Defence Conference - Day 5 Scenario

2019-05-07 Thread Sean Donelan
On Tue, 7 May 2019, Nick Hilliard wrote: pfft, asteroid impacts and alien mothership crashes are bound to happen in Central Park. Everyone knows that! The next Planetary Defence Conference in 2021 will be hosted in Europe. That means a major city on the European continent will likely be

Re: EXERCISE: 2019 IAA Planetary Defence Conference - Day 5 Scenario

2019-05-07 Thread Mark Seiden
manifestly untrue https://movie-tourist.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-day-earth-stood-still-1951.html On May 7, 2019, 1:33 PM -0700, Nick Hilliard , wrote: > Marshall Eubanks wrote on 07/05/2019 21:16: > > Yes, they kept moving the impact site around all week (both Denver and > > West Africa were

Re: EXERCISE: 2019 IAA Planetary Defence Conference - Day 5 Scenario

2019-05-07 Thread Nick Hilliard
Marshall Eubanks wrote on 07/05/2019 21:16: Yes, they kept moving the impact site around all week (both Denver and West Africa were mentioned at times). Some people wiser than I guessed Central Park early on, but I thought that was too obvious. Good thing I didn't make a bet on it. pfft,

Re: EXERCISE: 2019 IAA Planetary Defence Conference - Day 5 Scenario

2019-05-07 Thread Marshall Eubanks
Yes, they kept moving the impact site around all week (both Denver and West Africa were mentioned at times). Some people wiser than I guessed Central Park early on, but I thought that was too obvious. Good thing I didn't make a bet on it. Regards Marshall Eubanks On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 2:21 PM

Re: EXERCISE: 2019 IAA Planetary Defence Conference - Day 5 Scenario

2019-05-07 Thread Mark Seiden
excellent!  (but i was hoping this would be a swamp-draining-by-vaporization exercise.) i particularly liked this animation.  https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/pd/cs/pdc19/Day5-MegaFire.mov On May 7, 2019, 11:21 AM -0700, Sean Donelan , wrote: > > EXERCISE Only > > The scenario was chosen to stress the