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Jupiter hit again.

rjh01 said:
I expect Jupiter to be hit a lot more than Earth is. Jupiter is a much bigger target and it is nearer the asteroid belt.
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And add to that the fact that he doesn't know when to shut his ******* mouth. Yeah, there's a reason he get's hit so often.
 
I saw the video. I saw the flash, but where was the boom? In the movies, there's always a boom.
 
Brown said:
I saw the video. I saw the flash, but where was the boom? In the movies, there's always a boom.
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*dubs in Wilhelm Scream*

crap, wrong sound effect

*bonk!*

...sorry...

*pud!*

Can't find the right button. hang on~
 
How common are strikes like that?

I was thinking about this the other day, after Neil Armstrong died. And I was thinking, how long will his footprints last on the moon? The sun expanding and engulfing for sure will destroy them, or some other cause of the moon being destroyed. However, the other possibility is that they will succumb to an asteroid strike sufficient to destroy the area, or at least cover them in dust. How common is something like that?
 
pgwenthold said:
How common are strikes like that?

I was thinking about this the other day, after Neil Armstrong died. And I was thinking, how long will his footprints last on the moon? The sun expanding and engulfing for sure will destroy them, or some other cause of the moon being destroyed. However, the other possibility is that they will succumb to an asteroid strike sufficient to destroy the area, or at least cover them in dust. How common is something like that?
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Common on what scale? Over the course of the life of the moon, large impacts have been common. Over the course of man's awareness that the moon is impacted, such events are very rare indeed. If I had to wager, I'd bet that Armstrongs footprints will outlast man, but will eventually be covered by debris from an impact before the sun expands and swallows the moon.
 
sarge said:
Common on what scale? Over the course of the life of the moon, large impacts have been common. Over the course of man's awareness that the moon is impacted, such events are very rare indeed. If I had to wager, I'd bet that Armstrongs footprints will outlast man, but will eventually be covered by debris from an impact before the sun expands and swallows the moon.
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Yeah, but what's the over/under on how long before it happens?

What's the chance it happens in a million years?
10 million?
100 million?
1 billion?

Is it more likely to happen from a single strike dead on the mark? Or from a combination of smaller strikes sufficiently nearby to spread the dust? Or maybe by accumulation of space dust?
 
pgwenthold said:
Yeah, but what's the over/under on how long before it happens?

What's the chance it happens in a million years?
10 million?
100 million?
1 billion?

Is it more likely to happen from a single strike dead on the mark? Or from a combination of smaller strikes sufficiently nearby to spread the dust? Or maybe by accumulation of space dust?
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Single impact, dead on the mark, more than 1 million, fewer than 100 million years, on a Tuesday.

Or, we advance sufficiently that we destroy the prints while building condos.
 
Brown said:
I saw the video. I saw the flash, but where was the boom? In the movies, there's always a boom.
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(Humor part): The Illudium Q-36 explosive space modulator has a tendency to not always give you the Earth (or in this case, Jupiter :D) shattering "Ka-BOOM".
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(Serious part): Ok, while that flash was just a pinprick on the image, it must have be incredibly huge to show up to that degree on that image. Anyone have any guesstimations about how big that was? If you think about the size of Jupiter, that's actually a pretty significant sized flash (keeping in mind that there are all sorts of distortive factors to take into account: Resolution, reflection off of Jupiter's clouds, etc).
 
I just hope the Jovians don't think it is Earth that is raining asteroids and comets down upon them...
 
That Jupiter. Always devouring his children.

I blame the influence of Saturn.
 
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