MichaelJ
NASA scientists recorded the biggest explosion from a meteorite impact seen on the moon in eight years of monitoring.
The lunar burst was caused by a 40-kilogram boulder-sized rock slamming into the surface at about 90,000 kph. It generated a flash 10 times brighter than anything seen before, which came from the thermal glow of molten rock at the point of impact.
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William Barnett-Lewis Sun, May 19, 2013 10:04:29am |
This video is currently unavailable :(
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PhillyPretzel Sun, May 19, 2013 10:08:27am |
re: #1 William Barnett-Lewis
The video worked for me. Very interesting stuff about meteorites.
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blueraven Sun, May 19, 2013 10:20:36am |
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Iwouldprefernotto Sun, May 19, 2013 10:23:25am |
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thedopefishlives Sun, May 19, 2013 10:25:08am |
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Sol Berdinowitz Sun, May 19, 2013 10:51:30am |
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William Barnett-Lewis Sun, May 19, 2013 10:53:51am |
Hrm. Still doesn’t want to play for me. I’ve got flash disabled (serious issues with it in Chrome & Xubuntu 13.04 - CPU hogging and memory leaks) so it’s presumably trying to play it in HTML5 and that’s probably barfing. I’ll have to see if I can find someplace to download a file of the video as VLC remains my best video solution on my antiquated laptop.
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Sol Berdinowitz Sun, May 19, 2013 11:28:32am |
I guess fallout from the lunar impact killed the thread…
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Political Atheist Sun, May 19, 2013 11:31:41am |
Some of you might be trained in medicine or mental health. I’d be very curious as to your take on my latest Page. Pulled two articles in for point and support.
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allegro Sun, May 19, 2013 11:43:32am |
re: #9 Political Atheist
Some of you might be trained in medicine or mental health. I’d be very curious as to your take on my latest Page. Pulled two articles in for point and support.
I’m not trained in either but agree on the general points just from having lived long enough to see the evolution of the past 6 decades. We can see it in the advertising for drugs today that I find both scary and kinda hilarious. We see them pushing drugs with frightening side effects for often minor ailments. I think ritalin has been seriously over-prescribed for kids who are simply energetic and curious, making them inconvenient for parents and, especially, teachers who don’t have the time to deal with them. Drugging them into submission is easier.
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ProTARDISLiberal Sun, May 19, 2013 11:45:31am |
Well, yesterday was a good day.
I am a puddle of happy, and the episode blew my mind. Literally. I had a headache for about 12 hours, until 930ish.
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