General
23 Mar 21
1861: London's first train cars pulled by horses.
1888: The Football League.
1919: Fascism becomes a political movement in Italy.
1921: Donald Campbell is born.
1933: Enabling Act in Germany.
1966: Pope VI and Dr Ramsey have a meeting🤔
1971: Bangladesh go it alone.
1983: Ronald Reagan & Star Wars😑
1889: Near miss with an Asteroid.
2001: Mir crashes into the Pacific just off Fuji.
2021: Woke is the new woke😒
Just saying🤷♂️🚬
@hells-caretaker saidThe capital A refers to the video game Asteroids, presumably. It involved multiple, multiple near misses, the same sweaty palms as I got from doing smack, and many the unsavoury utterance in Anglo Saxon.
1889: Near miss with an Asteroid.
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@fmf said"Smack"? Sounds like something one did, in the old days, to a petulant child.
The capital A refers to the video game Asteroids, presumably. It involved multiple, multiple near misses, the same sweaty palms as I got from doing smack, and many the unsavoury utterance in Anglo Saxon.
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@fmf saidNo honest. A 1,000-foot[edit] Diameter asteroid missed Earth by a mere 400,000 miles.
The capital A refers to the video game Asteroids, presumably. It involved multiple, multiple near misses, the same sweaty palms as I got from doing smack, and many the unsavoury utterance in Anglo Saxon.
23 Mar 21
@kevin-eleven saiderr🤔gimmie some more rope on that it's chicken soup?
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Do you need more red string and push pins?
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23 Mar 21
@hells-caretaker saidas in someone connecting the dots in a room papered with photos, maps, and newspaper clippings . . .
err🤔gimmie some more rope on that it's chicken soup?
23 Mar 21
@hells-caretaker saidApophis is coming back
No honest. A 1,000-foot[edit] Diameter asteroid missed Earth by a mere 400,000 miles.
23 Mar 21
@kevin-eleven saidSo you know about it as well🙌
as in someone connecting the dots in a room papered with photos, maps, and newspaper clippings . . .
23 Mar 21
@hells-caretaker saidBottom line: Asteroid Apophis will sweep past Earth on March 5-6, 2021, its closest pass before it buzzes by in 2029. The large asteroid is noteworthy for its extremely close approaches to Earth in 2029, 2036 and 2068. Observations show any impact this century is unlikely.Mar. 4, 2021
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When? I need to update my charts.
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23 Mar 21
@hells-caretaker saidYou have to admit that if you were out by that much on your way to the pub you'd be disappointed though.
No honest. A 1,000-foot[edit] Diameter asteroid missed Earth by a mere 400,000 miles.
@hells-caretaker saidThe moon is only 238,000 miles away.
No honest. A 1,000-foot[edit] Diameter asteroid missed Earth by a mere 400,000 miles.
@suzianne saidIndeed, although that distance varies of course.
The moon is only 238,000 miles away.
Distances and areas in the space above the earth become literally err...astronomical in scale the further out you travel.
Think of a square mile on the surface of our spherical planet and consider that is it of course a curved plane, which if extended upwards quickly becomes a huge area. We think about the distance to the moon in terms of linear distances on earth, but the sheer volume of empty space between us and the moon cannot be represented by a simple linear distance.
At 400,000 miles out from the earth the volume of space within that sphere is mind boggling and the chances of a rock entering that gigantic sphere and hitting the tiny earth at the centre of it is infinitesimally small.
Of course there is always gravity to help 👍🏻
24 Mar 21
@suzianne saidTrue more or less,
The moon is only 238,000 miles away.
It's driven by the effect of the Moon's gravity on the rotating Earth. Tides raised in the oceans cause drag and thus slow the Earth's spin-rate. The resulting loss of angular momentum is compensated for by the Moon speeding up, and thus moving further away.
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