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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: mindoculus on Tue, 14 January 2014, 18:05:07
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So how off-topic is this awesome pic ---> http://i.imgur.com/wKtQHaK.jpg
(http://i.imgur.com/wKtQHaK.jpg)
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Space is cool
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very awesome
Space is cool
and terrifying
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One day, those little rocks wont be so little when they come calling. On that day . . .
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Space is cool
Approximately -273 degrees C cool.
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The ISS is so ****ing cool
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I'm telling ya'll we gotta freeze bruce willis til'when the daddy of that asteroid come'a'knokin
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I'm telling ya'll we gotta freeze bruce willis til'when the daddy of that asteroid come'a'knokin
Not to mention, it's a good excuse not to dismantle ALL the nuclear weapons in the world... We gotta keep one for when that big 'ol astroid thingumajig is all up there in the sky coming to blast us. :))
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very off-topic and very cool.
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I just signed up for the Air Force so I could become an astronaut. Done.
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I just signed up for the Air Force so I could become an astronaut. Done.
astronaut is a very hard job that doesn't pay very much.. I guess the "cool" factor is why people do it..
imho, airline pilot is where it's at.
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I just signed up for the Air Force so I could become an astronaut. Done.
astronaut is a very hard job that doesn't pay very much
and cosmonaut isn't
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It's crazy to think that the majority of the meteors we see in the sky range between the size of a grain of sand and a small pebble. Of course, some are bigger. Meteor refers to the the trail of light that is created, the actual object is called a Meteoroid and whatever happens to make it to the surface of earth is called a Meteorite. They enter the atmosphere at 7-45 miles per second. This speed is no problem in the vacuum of space but since the atmosphere is full of matter it causes a massive amount of friction which can generate heat as high as 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit which raises the meteoroids surface to the boiling point and it vaporizes layer by layer. The friction breaks the molecules of the meteoroid and the molecules of the atmosphere into glowing ionized particles which then recombine to form light energy. A grain sized meteoroid can produce a beam of light a meter wide and because of its speed it can be many miles long.
Meteoroids can range in size from anything bigger than a molecule and smaller than 330 feet. Anything bigger is classified as an Asteroid. Most of the debris the Earth comes in contact with is dust shed from comets in the solar system.
Thank you internet!