It's like one of my Japanese.....
Thar we go.
Epic song, Btw. Love Radwimps.
Thar we go.
Epic song, Btw. Love Radwimps.
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A bright fireball over Tokyo explodes with the force of 165 tons of TNT
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Damn, Square Enix is going all out to hype us up for Final Fantasy VII: Remake 2!
say what you will about 2020 at least the secretly psychic japanese high school student saved tokyo from the death meteor
well, massive impacts like what helped wipe out all the dinosaurs (except birds) are really rare and the rocks are so big we'd notice one coming, i wouldnt worry being caught off guard by one. what are actually concerning are smaller ones but still very destructive impacts like the one that laid waste to Siberia (Tunguska) in 1908.. they happen much more frequently (varied estimates from anywhere to once every 50 years to once per millenia, in any case its not millions of years), and are harder to spot early (a size of only 50-200 meters), especially if they come from the sun's direction and are obscured by its intense light. good luck to anyone living in a city hit by one. or the coastal areas if one hits the ocean at full speed... the regional devastation would be total, and could come with no warning.
as a side note, every square meter of earth is impacted every day (iirc), they're just tiny impacts so we dont experience them. some miniscule space rocks most likely fell on your roof while you slept.
I count myself lucky to have seen a meteor explode over the North Sea, by coincidentally looking out my window at the right moment.
For a second, it was like someone turned on a backup Sun.
For a second, it was like someone turned on a backup Sun.
A bright fireball over Tokyo explodes with force of 165 tons of TNT, and a soundtrack
A space rock reportedly causes a sonic boom as it crashes into our atmosphere over Japan.www.cnet.com
Space is scary.
This is how religions and myths get invented. Some crazy-ass awe-inspiring phenomenon like this combined with some lucky timing for some individual(s) who had just asked "give me a sign" or were about to be conquered until a typhoon drowned the entire enemy flotilla , or an earthquake swallowed the enemy army.
We all live through one or two ridiculous coincidences that might feel like supernatural intervention to a believer. Those believers then spread the story with full faith and certainty. Others just lie for their own gain or out of a pathological need for attention. Multiply this by tens of millions of lives over a thousand years and you have yourself a full-blown greek/norse/inca/egyptian/chinese mythology.
Fireball that lit up Tokyo sky confirmed as meteor after pieces found
A fireball that brightened the Tokyo sky earlier this month has been identified as a meteor after fragments were found in a neighboring prefecture, a Japanese national science museum says.
Fireball that lit up Tokyo sky confirmed as meteor after pieces found
A fireball that brightened the Tokyo sky earlier this month has been identified as a meteor after fragments were found in a neighboring prefecture, a Japanese national science museum says.english.kyodonews.net
thats literally like a piece of gravel. and they found it? lmao
You travel through the atmosphere at hundreds of thousands of miles per hour and see how much of you is left.
I mean I get that part, but the fact they found it when it's so small is impressive.
I imagine the sound + impact + new bit of rock in the middle of courtyard made it relatively easy to things together - I've watched way too many sci-fi movies to touch something from outer space though.
Turning it into a blade is silly.
Make meteorite-tipped bullets to hunt were-aliens. That's the best use.
Make meteorite-tipped bullets to hunt were-aliens. That's the best use.