Not that I would be too happy to see such contrails outside my window but…why?
North Korea is expecting the US (and pretty much everyone else) to attack it at any moment; their immediate reaction - reason, logic, and evidence be damned - would probably be to interpret the meteor event as a missile attack, and they might be expected to respond with military aggression (to the extent that they are able).
India and Pakistan haven’t been real happy with each other for a while either, and so similar circumstances would apply there: each might accuse the other of launching a missile attack, and it might trigger a large-scale military conflict between the two.
India and Pakistan both have nukes pointed at each other and are constantly on alert for sneak attacks from the other side. Just saying that it would be far more likely for a meteor to be mistaken for a first strike surprise attack in either of those two countries than in the US or Russia these days.
Ninja’d! 
The thing was, according to the news, 17 meters (!!!) across. Try to imagine what 17 meters of rock weighs. (I think maybe they’re rounding “about 50 feet”) That’s a five-story building! Even a direct hit, with anything short of a nuclear weapon would likely not make much of a dent in the shape or trajectory. OTOH, reentry heat probably did so all on its own.
And then at 1:40, he starts talking about how a LOT of conspiracy theories are true, like 7 WTC being brought down by a controlled demolition and there was a second shooter in the JFK assassination, and that the Aurora shooter was drugged and mind controlled. Those things are TRUE, all the evidence supports that. :eek:
I’m thinking this might not be the best debunking video out there.
I think they fired a tiny Bruce Willis at the meteor.
Oh, is THAT what “tower 7” means? I was trying to place him on the conspiracy scale. So on one hand if he believes such things, does that mean his believing this is a hoax is wrong i.e. the meteor really was shot down. On the other hand, even conspiracy theorists don’t believe this conspiracy 
Could you hit it with a kinetic energy penetrator and cause it to break up? The smaller the pieces, the faster they’d burn up.
Coming to you from the same news agency that thought the White House Petition website was a binding legal document.
Maybe when it first entered the atmosphere. I thought that they said it was about ten tons, which would be more on the order of six feet across (assuming mostly round, which may or may not have been the case).
:dubious:
Let’s see, no specific major crises on. Only one city seems to have been effected. Nothing on radar. Lots of broken windows, but nit much else. You think that they woukd launch a nuclear strike based on that? Sounds very condescending and frankly downright racist, even though I suspect (or at least hope) the later at least was not your intention.
I’m waiting for the Lego version.
Dude, the world almost ended in 1983 on much less than that. Able Archer: you can look it up.
IOW, lighten up, Francis.
Able Archer was a major exercise. Rather different.
No, they’re not. Their stunts are pretty much based on the idea that nobody’s actually going to attack them. What they’re hoping for is that their stunts will get people to feed them.
While I agree, I must ask, what was the point of this post?
It’s the equivalent of telling a child “because I said so” but twice as arrogant and hollow an answer.
Do you just like seeing your username on your screen?
Well, I don’t know. Would they wait for the would be nuke to hit the ground so they could assess the damage befor they hit their little red button?
But the potentially world-ending bit was a single event: sunlight bouncing off clouds to hit a Russian spy satellite in just the right way that it generated a false launch alert, for a missile that wasn’t there in the first place. If the Russian meteorite had streaked across the sky just at that moment, rather than thirty years later, I have little doubt that we would not be having this conversation now.
But you’re right, to point out that India and Pakistan have been at each other’s throats for half a century now, and Pakistan for its part is a dangerously unstable regime with access to nuclear weapons – why, that’s simply racist of me. Darn my white privilege!
To presume that professionals whose job is missile warning and who have been doing their jobs for decades now would be unaware of risks of false alarms while you sitting at a computer can ascertain that in passing, yes it is downright racist.
Actually, on the morning of this most recent incident, Neil deGrasse Tyson was on NBC’s Today show and mentioned just such an incident near the India/Pakistan border during a tense time (I don’t recall when, but he mentioned it), where observations including astronomers confirmed there wasn’t an attack going on, and there were no hostilities, just rattled nerves. So it probably would have been much the same result now as then.
One doesn’t need to presume; there are documented instances of false alarms nearly resulting in war. What makes you think someone carping on a website is under anything like the same launch-or-die time pressure under which nuclear deterrent “professionals” operate?
The time stamps on your posts indicate it’s taken the two of you from 11:45 pm last night to 7:49 am this morning to have this exchange. That’s 8 hours and four minutes of talking about the crisis. “Professionals” don’t have 8 hours to evaluate a missile threat.