Asteroid Smashup

Tom Ligon · Post by **Tom Ligon** » Tue Feb 02, 2010 7:31 pm

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.

DeltaV · Post by **DeltaV** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 7:38 am

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--

DeltaV · Post by **DeltaV** » Tue Nov 09, 2010 9:02 pm

I was wrong. It's a Pyrian torchship.

KitemanSA · Post by **KitemanSA** » Tue Nov 09, 2010 10:19 pm

Tom,
You pointed this out to us way back on February 2nd.

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

krenshala · Post by **krenshala** » Wed Nov 10, 2010 12:06 am

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?

KitemanSA · Post by **KitemanSA** » Wed Nov 10, 2010 4:38 am

krenshala wrote: You are aware of the fact you posted a self-referential link, right?

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.

DeltaV · Post by **DeltaV** » Wed Nov 10, 2010 6:37 am

The Pyrians have been messing with your time sense. All part of the Plan.

Giorgio · Post by **Giorgio** » Wed Nov 10, 2010 8:12 am

KitemanSA · Post by **KitemanSA** » Wed Nov 10, 2010 3:28 pm

DeltaV wrote:The Pyrians have been messing with your time sense. All part of the Plan.

With a capital "P".

Tom Ligon · Post by **Tom Ligon** » Thu Nov 11, 2010 4:40 pm

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.

MSimon · Post by **MSimon** » Mon Nov 15, 2010 7:51 am

The ones you really need to keep an eye on are the A-Thollians.