Speaking of Alan Harris, he just sent me this picture he took a few years go of an advertising sign at the Meudon – Val Fleury train station in Paris.
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It translates to "Falling meteorites". It’s an ad for a museum exhibit! Which is good, because I don’t think holding a folded newspaper over your head will help much.
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The original BA site (with the Moon Hoax debunking, movie reviews, and all that) can be found here.
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October 14th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Well, considering that most of the stuff that hits the Earth and actually makes it to the ground (numberwise) is just dust, maybe that newspaper is effective. Or am I remembering an old science class incorrectly?
Please correct me, but as I remember from my science class, there are numerous particles that do survive the trip through the atmosphere. As you commented in an earlier blog, atmospheric resistance slows them down quite a bit. And most of this is just dust sized… Hmm, maybe I ought to research that myself?
October 14th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Well…the newspaper WOULD help keep the blood splatter off of the rock…
For a few picoseconds.
October 14th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Maybe ot, but U just read on i09 that NASA is going to attempt to fix Hubble remotely. Report says that they are going to put it in safe mode and send up a program to bypass the problem and it could be up and running as early as Friday. Do you know anything more about it Phil?
October 14th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Everything is possible with a newspaper, the next time you are in the UK I’ll show you how to open a beer with a wet newspaper.
October 14th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Here’s a link from Slice of Sci-fi:
http://www.sliceofscifi.com/2008/10/14/remote-hubble-fix-begins/
October 14th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
The estimated amount of meteorite dust that accumulates on the Earth is:
1.5 x 1011 gm/year (Ceplecha, 1996)* or ~150,000 tonnes/year.
*Source: TalkOrigins.org — Meteorite Dust and the Age of the Earth.
October 14th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
*Crickets*
October 14th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
IVAN3MAN: I thought it was interesting.
October 14th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
sorry Ivan3man, waiting for elections results here in Canuckland.
October 14th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Shouldn’t it be “falling meteors” instead? I thought they weren’t meteorites until they reach the ground.
October 14th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Well, I’m glad that some found it interesting!
October 14th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Hey Ivan3man it could be worse Nathan Myers might have found it interesting.
October 14th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
Davidlpf, the only thing Nathan Myers would find interesting is the sound of his own voice!
October 14th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
@Ivan3man I was just being smart@$$.
(I know more @$$ then smart.)
October 14th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
Speak of the devil.
click my name,
October 14th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
Davidlpf, I understood that you were “just being smart@$$”. I should have placed a
at the end of my last comment to avoid any misunderstanding.
Yeah, I see that “the devil” is back — again!
October 15th, 2008 at 11:06 am
David: Shouldn’t that have been
“Pull my finger,,,”??? ,,,snark,,,
GAry 7