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Asteroid Smashup

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 7:31 pm
by Tom Ligon
This in the news today:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubbl ... 00202.html

The Hubble apparently caught the aftermath of a very recent asteroid collision.

If you will recall, Hollywood will tell you one fragment must be heading straight for us. ;)

Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 7:38 am
by DeltaV
Image

It's obviously a Ror'thalk battle cruiser coming out of warp.

[Edit - I was just browsing the forums over at nasaspaceflight.com and noticed a member using "deltaV" (lower case d) as a moniker. No relation. Wouldn't want anyone else to suffer because of my post about incoming alien inva--zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt--

Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 9:02 pm
by DeltaV
I was wrong. It's a Pyrian torchship.

Image

Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 10:19 pm
by KitemanSA
Tom,
You pointed this out to us way back on February 2nd.

viewtopic.php?t=1860&start=0&postdays=0 ... t=asteroid

Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 12:06 am
by krenshala
KitemanSA wrote:Tom,
You pointed this out to us way back on February 2nd.

viewtopic.php?t=1860&start=0&postdays=0 ... t=asteroid
You are aware of the fact you posted a self-referential link, right?

Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 4:38 am
by KitemanSA
krenshala wrote: You are aware of the fact you posted a self-referential link, right?
:oops: Boy its amazing what a couple days without sleep can do to your cognative abilities! I could have sworn the date on this "NEW" reposting was today's. :oops:

Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 6:37 am
by DeltaV
The Pyrians have been messing with your time sense. All part of the Plan.

Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 8:12 am
by Giorgio
LOL

Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 3:28 pm
by KitemanSA
DeltaV wrote:The Pyrians have been messing with your time sense. All part of the Plan.
With a capital "P".

Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 4:40 pm
by Tom Ligon
What I thought was funny was when the news media forgot about their February stories, and ran another round of them a couple of weeks ago.

The actual new news is there have been some additional calculations done on when the impact must have occurred, and the event was somewhat older than initially thought. Not a lot, though.

I guess they did not know it was Pyrian starship smashup, but thought instead it was an asteroid, so they used the wrong structural strength in the model.

Tough birds, those Pyrian ships, but no match for a determined and suicidal Thollian.

Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 7:51 am
by MSimon
The ones you really need to keep an eye on are the A-Thollians.