I agree. Also hard for me to understand how Tunguska, a 1000 times larger atmospheric explosion than recent could be made from a rock they can't find. That is 30,000 Hiroshima bombs
Danger Will Robinson, Danger On Tuesday, March 5, 2013, James Bowery wrote: > At this point I'm not really interested in confirmation. I have all the > confirmation I need to summarily reject the "sheer coincidence" explanation > with just the two events. I'm interested in anything that would tend to > disconfirm -- say evidence that atmospheric entry events of this magnitude > are a _lot_ more frequent than currently available data suggest. A > smaller meteroid passing at a distance that is 10 times the distance > of2012 DA14 is in the noise either way. > > On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 10:14 AM, ChemE Stewart > <[email protected]<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '[email protected]');> > > wrote: > >> Jim, >> >> Have you tried to plug this additional Russian sized asteroid into your >> probability model that they just found a couple of days ago passing between >> us and the moon? >> >> >> http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/03/17171923-another-asteroid-similar-to-russian-meteor-zooming-past-us-harmlessly?lite >> >> 1860 was the "Year of Meteors" following the largest solar flare event >> known. PannSTARRS is soon to zoom past Earth (100 Million miles away) >> approaching the Sun, I hope everyone behaves. >> >> Stewart >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 1:54 PM, James Bowery >> <[email protected]<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '[email protected]');> >> > wrote: >> >>> I'm overwhelmed by just the 16 hour span of 2 rare-event coincidence and >>> am loathe to incorporate more as both a lot of work to validate and as well >>> as unnecessary to already put me in a state of mind that I'd rather not >>> deal with given the need to pay rent. >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Jouni Valkonen >>> <[email protected]<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', >>> '[email protected]');> >>> > wrote: >>> >>>> James, >>>> >>>> I think that you should also consider that 2014 Mars comet flyby that >>>> is once in hundred million years event especially if it is going to hit the >>>> planet. Odd coincidence or is it just about pushing the Earth's space >>>> program ahead! >>>> >>>> If you have not yet read this Landis paper, I would recommend to read >>>> it because we must become a multiplanetary species. >>>> >>>> >>>> *Colonization of Venus* (by Geoffrey A. Landis) >>>> ABSTRACT: *Although the surface of Venus is an extremely hostile >>>> environment, at about 50 kilometers above the surface the atmosphere of >>>> Venus is the most earthlike environment (other than Earth itself) in the >>>> solar system. It is proposed here that in the near term, human exploration >>>> of Venus could take place from aerostat vehicles in the atmosphere, and >>>> that in the long term, permanent settlements could be made in the form of >>>> cities designed to float at about fifty kilometer altitude in the >>>> atmosphere of Venus.* >>>> >>>> http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20030022668_2003025525.pdf >>>> >>>> —Jouni >>>> >>> >>> >> >
