Hi Dirk and List,
FoolishIT has a locker that prevents CryptoLocker from running,
called CryptoPrevent. It's a pretty nice little piece of code.
That said: Backups. If one hasn't learned to keep backups of files
they care about by this point, CryptoLocker is probably a cheap
lesson.
You're such a party-pooper, Chris! That's the problem with schools
today - no tolerance for generating large over-pressures in the
classroom. It aint science until you're bleeding from the ears and
half the school is swamping the ER, getting stitched up, and having
glass shards extracted!
The
For those interested: The actual observed start time for the
northern California event from Sacramento, CA was 07-Nov-2013 @
22:25:36, moving out of the SW to the W. The witless statements were
all over the board on time, so figured I'd shorten your search down
so you don't waste hours of your
Before anyone speculates:
Not an Orionid. The radiant is about Fomalhaught towards [over] Venus.
GPS-sync'd time is 19:54:01 for 9-11 seconds (observer altitude dependent)
PDT from Sacramento and Auburn, CA respective. Video is up on Dirk's site now,
but if anyone is looking to analyze it,
Local news just noted the event, lots of people calling in
apparently. (KCRA TV)
Tuesday, October 22, 2013, 11:08:46 PM, you wrote:
Before anyone speculates:
Not an Orionid. The radiant is about Fomalhaught towards [over] Venus.
GPS-sync'd time is 19:54:01 for 9-11 seconds (observer
Hello Ron,
Maybe it was all of us RFing the poo out of her radios at 200-1500 watts
over on 10meters [as requested]? :)
I was monitoring the entire 1Mhz spectrum width from another location
as I was hitting her, and I counted at least six, sometimes eight,
other stations mashing the key at the
Hundreds of billions in sunk-cost and they have less than 12 hours of
burn on their bandwidth bill?
My investors would lynch me, and no jury in the world would convict
them...
Of course, I have to have an approved budget every year or I'll get
fired and the government will lock me up.
Must be
Hi Phil,
If you missed his report - Dirk had it this morning - here for the
latest:
http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2013/09/breaking-news-mi-oh-in-daytime-bolide.html
Thursday, September 26, 2013, 8:36:27 AM, you wrote:
Lots of reports are coming in. A big green fireball spotted
Science-by-Consensus is bleating-edge scientific method for sure. It
saves a tremendous amount of time in that whole pesky investigation
and analysis stuff.
Classically, it brought us such important concepts as the geocentric
universe and the base element of fire, Phlogiston.
So yes, let's all
Hi Dirk,
Ask and ye shall receive!
http://www.spaceballoon.org/SanLuisPotosi-28Aug2013.zip
All four videos in the highest quality stream available for each
compressed into one easy to digest zip file.
Total about 12.5MB.
--- Jodie
Thursday, August 29, 2013, 1:17:25 AM, you wrote:
Count and
After your third or fourth night sleeping on the ground a Willow
tree** looks better than any rock.
Anyone who spends a lot of time in the field would be well-served
with at least a passing knowledge of medicinal herbalism.
--- Jodie
**Willow bark contains Salicin, the compound eventually
Hello Shawn,
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Saturday, June 22, 2013, 3:06:02 AM, you wrote:
Hello Listers,
Came across this link, not sure what to make of this, but I bet
some of you on the
Aha, this link should work:
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2013/06/21/rock-or-meteorite-strange-object-crashes-through-roof-of-local-business/
Saturday, June 22, 2013, 3:06:02 AM, you wrote:
Hello Listers,
Came across this link, not sure what to make of this, but I bet
some of you on the
Hello Jeff,
Registration artifact.
When one goes about putting these together, one would generally work
in at least a 24bit if not a 32bit space with a transparent
background.
I sick a whole bunch of processing power on the problem with a neural
network looking for features that match-up. Once
I'm still stinging from JPL omitting one of the full-frame images
from the initial series. Repeated requests to add it to the raw media
directory were promptly and courteously ignored in the order they were
received.
I know it exists, because it exists in their own Pano. My software
stitching
Not buying it, at least not at face value. Quite literally doesn't add up.
It would have to survive at least another five orbits after Mir broke
up. And it would have been a very light piece. That's five orbits
AFTER its OBSERVED reentry!
My simulation puts it within a few kilometers altitude
Hello Carl,
A janitor huffing tile adhesive whilst emptying trash cans in some
administrative back office at NASA probably doesn't lend much
credibility, even if he's crashing in his van outside a Holiday Inn
Express every night.
Wild claims abound.
But regardless of who is making the claim,
Xerus martis ? Atlantoxerus martis?
Looks like good eatin'! Curiosity does have that [PEW PEW PEW!]
laser for a reason, right?
--- Jodie
Saturday, June 1, 2013, 9:06:50 AM, you wrote:
History repeats itself.
Rats hitched rides on boats and infested many islands like Hawaii.
It is
Hello Martin,
First of all, Adam,
I noticed, watchin my niecesnephew, that the U.S.-educational system
attaches importance to impart patriotism.
Just the opposite. Our current educational system is intended to
indoctrinate Socialism to as wide an extent as possible.
Adam, isn't paying
With the caveat that a crop sensor (APS-C) provides magnification
over the effective full-frame lens rating. So if a lens is 1:1 at
35mm on the Canon APS-C sensor it'll effectively be 1.6:1
I'd rather have less pixel density on the same size sensor (lower
megapixels) to get better low-light
Hello Greg,
If you're going to do a macro lens, you also need a ring-light.
I have a 1-5x (1:1 - 5:1) Canon MP-E, but these days I prefer using
the Canon 100 f/2.8L Macro w/ISM (1:1) The close-focus on it is only
about a foot though. At 67mm it fits nicely with most any common
ring-light
PM
To: 'Jodie Reynolds' ; 'Greg Hupé'
Cc: 'Meteorite List'
Subject: RE: [meteorite-list] Digital Camera for Studio Photography
Hi All,
For years I have been using this inexpensive ring light for macros and
meteorite photography:
http://www.staples.com/V-Light-Full-Spectrum-Clamp
Hello Shawn,
Wow - that takes some of the challenge out of hunting them!
Where do I call to have them delivered by the Celestial Postal
Service?
--- Jodie
Tuesday, April 23, 2013, 5:56:46 PM, you wrote:
Hello Listers,
It confirmed Wolcott had a meteorite fall and its in my neck of the
Hello Jim,
I thought it was called Progressive Agenda?
--- Jodie
Friday, April 19, 2013, 1:31:16 PM, you wrote:
Actually, we do have a term for American scams. It's called Wall Street.
Jim Strope
421 4th Street
Glen Dale, WV. 26038
Sent from my iPad
On Apr 19, 2013, at 11:20 AM,
What about the swooning women he also demands in his letter?
Thursday, April 18, 2013, 3:56:08 PM, you wrote:
Hi List,
Let's make assumptions, shall we?
Assume the man did give a Mbale meteorite to the US Embassy.
Assume the Mbale stone in question is a large, museum-class
individual
Hello Phil [and list],
Yes, but wouldn't this be a Hammer-and-Sickle Stone? ;-)
--- Jodie
Saturday, March 30, 2013, 1:42:14 PM, you wrote:
I can't hammer home the importance of hammering out an agreement on this
hammer issue. We don't need to fight hammer and tongs over it every time it
It's late and I'm sleepy, so maybe my math is off - but $53/gram for
some unclassified iron?!?
--- Jodie
Friday, March 29, 2013, 3:14:10 AM, you wrote:
Greeting,
Wonder how much nickel poisoning he and his family have??
--AL Mitterling
Mitterling Meteorites
Quoting Shawn Alan
Hello Peter,
You've well established that you find the community lacking in
credibility and credential - so why not simply excuse yourself from
the company of such and go find an expert whose credibility you DO
respect? Why bring it to such a group of ignorant lameoids in the
first place?
I'm
That'd be a good trick without vaporizing the lake...
Thursday, March 21, 2013, 2:06:41 PM, you wrote:
http://en.ria.ru/science/20130321/180166867.html
Russian Scientists Find Crater in Meteorite-Hit Lake
RIA Novosti
March 21, 2013
MOSCOW, March 21 (RIA Novosti) - A radar probe of
Hello Ron,
I hereby dub the heretofore unnamed feature where GRAIL A rests as:
Mount Ebbrest
and where GRAIL B rests as:
Massif Flower
Make it so.
--- Jodie
Tuesday, March 19, 2013, 11:41:35 AM, you wrote:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-103
[CLIP!]
Both impact
Here are the first 25 shuttle missions, and their nearest tropical
storms, depressions, and hurricanes. Only 8% of the first 25 coincided to
two weeks. Maybe every single flight afterwards resulted in a Yes,
but that's not work I'm interested in doing given the initial
results. How about you
Hello Shawn,
I'm not sure I see how it impacts religion all that greatly (in
general) - and probably don't care much.
Where I really differ is that science is going to hush it up - not
on your life. The group who breaks _real_ related science is going
to be rolling in more money than Capt.
Dear Professor Agee,
The IAU's decision to go all rogue on the definition of a planet,
dwarf-planet, minor-planet, [iamnotaplanet, iamtooaplanet,
someplanetnamedstan] doesn't leave me with a warm and fuzzy about
calling Earth a planet. Cleared our orbit - I'm not even certain
that's necessarily
Hello Steve,
I agree, we're unlikely to launch asteroids into space. Doing so is
prohibitively expensive, both in Delta-V and in having to create the
asteroid to toss it out there in the first place...
_Returning_ materials from an asteroid would actually be quite cost-effective -
gravity does
Hello Steve,
Sunday, March 10, 2013, 3:24:05 AM, you wrote:
Spacex launched October 7th 2012 over the Pacific from Florida
I see you're as strong in Geography as you are in Video Forensics and
Cyclogenesis/Meteorology.
[As an interesting aside, the formation of the first Meteorological
Hello Steve,
For the geographically challenged: Hurricane Sandy came ashore in
New Jersey. About ELEVEN HUNDRED miles from Cape Canaveral. Which,
give a few hundred miles, is the closest distance from Florida to the
Pacific.
Sandy began as a Tropical Wave in the Caribbean on October 9th.
Hi Don and List,
Yes there will be a set price and yes you can still use PayPal to have Buyers
purchase your meteorites, but Bam...no eBay fees, no negative feedback no
bull crap!
Maybe a little closer to rocket science, but if you still want to
offer bidding, there are open-source bidding
fees.
On 3/2/13, Jodie Reynolds spacero...@spaceballoon.org wrote:
Hi Don and List,
Yes there will be a set price and yes you can still use PayPal to have
Buyers
purchase your meteorites, but Bam...no eBay fees, no negative feedback no
bull crap!
Maybe a little closer to rocket
but I spend at least 8 hours a day, every
day, driving traffic online. It is time-consuming, but one can make a
routine out of it.
Aha! See, you're running a real business. 8 hrs a day invested in
marketing activities, what, a couple hours a day in shipping and
support, minimum? Then you
Hello Graham,
With the current orbit from the MPC, my simulation has it missing Mars by a
little
over 700,000km, or about the same distance again from the MRO as MRO
is from Mars at its furthest (according to what I've read of its
altitude above the surface).
Of course, I think everyone is
Hello Shawn,
Wow, that's a lot of documentation for a $12 meteorite, I think he
got a, dare I say, killer deal?
Seriously, that guy's a moron.
--- Jodie
Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 12:50:01 PM, you wrote:
Hello Listers
Watch out for ebay buyer peterbilt701
It seems he knows nothing
[Note: frame references refer to my attached disassembly]
Hello Chris and all,
I agree: I don't see any impact event, certainly no shockwave is visible in
the bright frames.
I see the object of interest traveling away from the camera on a
steep angle and, between blooming and DCT errors,
not 1080p hd high resolution.
especially considering the highest resolution youtube uses is 720p.
Nice snow job. was pmg not mp4
Cheers Steve
--- On Tue, 2/26/13, Jodie Reynolds spacero...@spaceballoon.org wrote:
From: Jodie Reynolds spacero...@spaceballoon.org
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list
in a lifetime
opportunity!
--- Jodie
Monday, February 25, 2013, 8:18:41 PM, you wrote:
Hi Jodie:
Fantastic images! Thanks for the converted files. I would never have
realized that there was so much there!
Murray
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 9:01 PM, Jodie Reynolds
spacero...@spaceballoon.org
Hello Vincent and list,
I haven't gone and processed that video myself, but just skimming
your enhancement, my first blush is a nice image of the Bow
Wave (shock cone) and boundary layer. Given the tremendous compression
there's never
going to be a clean air image anywhere near that thing,
Hello James,
Thursday, February 21, 2013, 6:16:04 PM, you wrote:
[CLIP!] Echoes from other ground features that the
shockwave hits after passing you contributes as well.
Multipath
The wave takes multiple paths to reach the detector (your ear,
microphone, etc), some longer, some shorter.
---
Hello Bjørn,
Ok, what _evidence_ do you have to the contrary?
/DA14's trajectory is trivially established precisely. Show us this
new body matches that trajectory. It either does or it doesn't. You
are claiming it does, so now you need to present your case.
Finger-pointing and innuendo does
Thanks for the heads-up!
If you're in Asia, you might be able to catch it for a short flare to
Mag 7ish with decent binoculars. Consult a good piece of planetarium
software for a skymap because there will be significant parallax and
it'll be bookin' across our view.
No realistic shot at imaging
Hello Ted,
Saturday, January 26, 2013, 3:27:34 PM, you wrote:
There is the fever to coin new terminology for this apparent unique
stone (NWA 7034),
If it's not named, how are people supposed to sell dubious samples of
it on eBay? :-p~
--- Jodie
Well, he did call it the Year of Meteorite-Falls, except that it's gone
into overtime.
Sudden Death has a somewhat ominous ring to it when we're talking
about rocks hurtling through space with cosmic velocities. ;)
--
Best regards,
Jodie
I was mildly amused. Not appeased - but mildly amused none-the-less.
Monday, January 21, 2013, 11:22:29 AM, you wrote:
I feel your pain, Mendy, but not his! To answer your question, no, the
gods were not appeased. Had they been appeased he would have been
transported to the asteroid belt,
Go for a thermonuclear device. No reason to take chances.
Something in the several megaton range should be adequate...
Good Luck!
--- Jodie
G'Day Everyone
This off topic discussion on flu shots has me really on edge. Greg has
been concerned, as well as many others. After catching it once,
/flutrends/us/#cities
- Yinan
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 11:09 PM, Jodie Reynolds
spacero...@spaceballoon.org wrote:
Go for a thermonuclear device. No reason to take chances.
Something in the several megaton range should be adequate...
Good Luck!
--- Jodie
G'Day Everyone
This off topic
Hello Richard,
I got a call from a list member (hi!) waking me up this morning
asking about it.
I'm searching radar data, but the times are all over the board. I
haven't seen any lighting variance in Sacramento/Mather on 16
security cameras here at home, but I haven't checked client cameras
in
Found it at 13:21UTC in Sac/Mather. I'll pin it down further when I've analyzed
more cameras.
--- Jodie
Thursday, January 17, 2013, 12:14:06 PM, you wrote:
Hello Richard,
I got a call from a list member (hi!) waking me up this morning
asking about it.
I'm searching radar data, but the
Unless you live in Novato.
Sunday, January 13, 2013, 5:17:46 AM, you wrote:
Hi,
from the practice I'd like to add a most important point to the Meteorite
Reality Checklist:
60 If an expert tells you, that your rock is no meteorite, then:
Believe him!
:-)
Martin
Some
We need to be a little careful of the Journal of Cosmology.
Although they claim to be peer-reviewed, as blogger PZ Meyers so
eloquently describes them:
---
It doesn’t exist in print, consists entirely of a crude and ugly
website that looks like it was sucked through a wormhole from the
How about we compress it further and assign
0 for unobserved fall
and
1 for observed fall?
We could then use a flag and define them with a single bit, a logic
state of false for unobserved and true for observed?
Or a null state for unobserved and true for observed?
Substantially more
: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 20:33:28 -0800
From: Jodie Reynolds spacero...@spaceballoon.org
Subject: [meteorite-list] Vesta, Ceres, Jupiter, AND a meteor
To: 'Meteorite List' meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Message-ID: 1859240655.20121229203...@spaceballoon.org
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859
I was out just before moon-rise trying to see if I could catch Vesta,
Ceres, and Jupiter together.
Just after I opened the shutter for a 6 exposure, I saw a meteoroid
streak across the sky apparent heading towards Ain. Very short and dim, I
hoped it'd be enough to expose at 1000ISO.
It did!
Hi Cal,
Ever do much SCUBA diving? That'd be.. a challenge, to say the
least.
Maybe the shallow sandy bottoms of the Caribbean if you knew about it
and were there instantly. Probably have to do some drift experiments.
In most open water diving, if you drop your dive knife, it's gone
forever
Following the two successful impacts, there was also an announcement that the
final
resting place of the GRAIL twins will be named in memorial for
Astronaut Sally Ride [first American woman in LEO, still holds
youngest American in orbit title].
Thanks for the heads-up, I nearly forgot to tune
Hi Nick,
You agree that the people should fear their government? Thomas
Jefferson might have noted the support of tyranny in such an
[apparent] statement {^1}.
Other respondents have noted instances where the land management
agencies have started small and eventually leveraged that impression
Hi Jason,
The BLM's land?!?!?!
Would you explain to me how _they_ acquired such real property? How
they maintain it? How they staff their offices? How their
employees go about eating?
I'm clearly out of the loop - I was kinda under the impression that
the group We assigned to manage land
Hello Adam and list -
I've tried to resist the urge, but I've given up the fight:
The mistake we made was in not hanging the person in the public
square who first coined the term Government Property. Which is, of
course, a misnomer. The government can't own real property.
We, you and I and the
Hello Greg and List!
It was my understanding that the airship rides were contributed. Is
there reliable information that they're plunking down NASA-dollars
for that? Because I agree - that'd be pretty criminal.
Believe me, no one could possibly be any crankier about
misappropriation of
Hi List!
I've followed the list for a long time, but I'm not much of a
joiner, so this is something of a delurk...
Anyone from Battle Mountain fall missing a Nikon lens cap? Of all
the meteorwrongs it's the one that amused me most. :-)
Shoot me over a note off-list and I can drop it in an
Hey now -
My little group has been out there four days, averaging 7+mi/day of
hiking starting last Friday. At some point the RealWorld intrudes. ;-)
But I figure I've almost got Brien-miles in, so I'm due here in the
next day or two. :-)
--- Jodie
Is there not one true meteorite hunter in
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