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If my memory of 90s films serves me right, its a quote from Armageddon. Its one of the demands the drillers make before being trained to go into space and save the world from the on coming asteroid.
posted by VillainProtagonist at 7:06 AM on November 17, 2015 [13 favorites]
If my memory of 90s films serves me right, its a quote from Armageddon. Its one of the demands the drillers make before being trained to go into space and save the world from the on coming asteroid.
posted by VillainProtagonist at 7:06 AM on November 17, 2015 [13 favorites]
I'm working on a small version of the old Asteroids video game to learn OpenGL. I'm pretty sure I saw a meteor last Friday night. And now you post this article. I feel like I'm having a space debris moment.
posted by benito.strauss at 7:06 AM on November 17, 2015 [5 favorites]
posted by benito.strauss at 7:06 AM on November 17, 2015 [5 favorites]
More recently wasn't that a joke from Pixels? Peter Dinklage's character made that demand in order to help from the alien, umm, video game invasion.
posted by ian1977 at 7:11 AM on November 17, 2015
posted by ian1977 at 7:11 AM on November 17, 2015
Build a giant orbiting space laser? It will spend most of it's time pointing down.
posted by overhauser at 7:44 AM on November 17, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by overhauser at 7:44 AM on November 17, 2015 [1 favorite]
Since we're talking things falling from the sky, the Leonids peak tonight.
posted by Thorzdad at 7:50 AM on November 17, 2015
posted by Thorzdad at 7:50 AM on November 17, 2015
Once again, I knew I should have given my Pope the jetpack.
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posted by y2karl at 7:54 AM on November 17, 2015
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posted by y2karl at 7:54 AM on November 17, 2015
I'm actually glad I didn't recognize a quote from Armageddon, a movie I've tried very hard to forget.
posted by emjaybee at 8:24 AM on November 17, 2015
posted by emjaybee at 8:24 AM on November 17, 2015
Dinopacalypse is a great Radiolab about the end. The live show can be seen here.
Low flying rocks posts a tweet every time one of these suckers comes by.
Chodas looks like an older Sam Neill, the Kiwi actor who plays the dad on Jurassic Park...
Sam Neill was a scientist who hated the idea of being a dad.
posted by glaucon at 8:27 AM on November 17, 2015 [1 favorite]
Low flying rocks posts a tweet every time one of these suckers comes by.
Chodas looks like an older Sam Neill, the Kiwi actor who plays the dad on Jurassic Park...
Sam Neill was a scientist who hated the idea of being a dad.
posted by glaucon at 8:27 AM on November 17, 2015 [1 favorite]
Love that Low Flying Rocks account. At first I noticed that they all seem to be missing millions of kilometers, so we really don't need to worry, and then I notice that there's about 2-3 a day, so maybe we should.
posted by benito.strauss at 9:00 AM on November 17, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by benito.strauss at 9:00 AM on November 17, 2015 [2 favorites]
I'm actually glad I didn't recognize a quote from Armageddon, a movie I've tried very hard to forget.
Armageddon? That's a great name for a movie. Somebody should make a movie using that name. And since were in an asteroids thread, maybe it could be about a meteor approaching Earth? Like Deep Impact, except more thoughtful and character driven. Somebody should totally do this.
posted by happyroach at 9:04 AM on November 17, 2015 [2 favorites]
Armageddon? That's a great name for a movie. Somebody should make a movie using that name. And since were in an asteroids thread, maybe it could be about a meteor approaching Earth? Like Deep Impact, except more thoughtful and character driven. Somebody should totally do this.
posted by happyroach at 9:04 AM on November 17, 2015 [2 favorites]
Sweet Meteor O'Death 2016 - the candidate who will wipe out Daesh while simultaneously drastically cutting federal spending.
posted by save alive nothing that breatheth at 9:28 AM on November 17, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by save alive nothing that breatheth at 9:28 AM on November 17, 2015 [2 favorites]
Sweet Meteor O'Death 2016 - the candidate who will wipe out Daesh while simultaneously drastically cutting federal spending.
That campaign appears to have the momentum of a runaway freight train.
posted by nubs at 9:33 AM on November 17, 2015 [1 favorite]
That campaign appears to have the momentum of a runaway freight train.
posted by nubs at 9:33 AM on November 17, 2015 [1 favorite]
Previously. Turn quality up as high as possible and full sceen it.
posted by bonobothegreat at 9:45 AM on November 17, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by bonobothegreat at 9:45 AM on November 17, 2015 [1 favorite]
Low Flying Rocks
I loved "Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven", but they really hit their stride with "Express".
posted by The Tensor at 9:52 AM on November 17, 2015 [2 favorites]
I loved "Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven", but they really hit their stride with "Express".
posted by The Tensor at 9:52 AM on November 17, 2015 [2 favorites]
Love that Low Flying Rocks account.
I had to stop following it. It was giving me low-level constant anxiety.
posted by lumpenprole at 10:12 AM on November 17, 2015 [2 favorites]
I had to stop following it. It was giving me low-level constant anxiety.
posted by lumpenprole at 10:12 AM on November 17, 2015 [2 favorites]
From the article:
"...when it blew up in the lower atmosphere, releasing 185 Hiroshima bombs worth of energy."
More like 185,000 Hiroshimas, with Tunguska estimated at 3-5 focused megatons and Hiroshima known to be about 20 kilotons.
posted by the Real Dan at 10:13 AM on November 17, 2015
"...when it blew up in the lower atmosphere, releasing 185 Hiroshima bombs worth of energy."
More like 185,000 Hiroshimas, with Tunguska estimated at 3-5 focused megatons and Hiroshima known to be about 20 kilotons.
posted by the Real Dan at 10:13 AM on November 17, 2015
1 megaton is only 1000 kilotons.
posted by gubo at 10:27 AM on November 17, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by gubo at 10:27 AM on November 17, 2015 [1 favorite]
1 megaton is only 1000 kilotons.
posted by gubo at 10:27 AM on 11/17
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Fine but Dr. Brian May is the same Brian May who played that, "Daen dean du da da dada dean du da da dada dean... " on "Bohemian Rhapsody"
posted by From Bklyn at 12:09 PM on November 17, 2015
posted by gubo at 10:27 AM on 11/17
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Fine but Dr. Brian May is the same Brian May who played that, "Daen dean du da da dada dean du da da dada dean... " on "Bohemian Rhapsody"
posted by From Bklyn at 12:09 PM on November 17, 2015
Love that Low Flying Rocks account.
Every tweet is good news!
posted by jjwiseman at 1:10 PM on November 17, 2015 [2 favorites]
Every tweet is good news!
posted by jjwiseman at 1:10 PM on November 17, 2015 [2 favorites]
Don't worry about it. They all land in Russia.
posted by mule98J at 5:42 PM on November 17, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by mule98J at 5:42 PM on November 17, 2015 [1 favorite]
Congress Says Yes to Space Mining, No to Rocket Regulations
posted by Artw at 4:11 PM on November 18, 2015
posted by Artw at 4:11 PM on November 18, 2015
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