March 21, 20215 yr At first witnesses were blaming the RAF for breaking the sound barrier. Turns out it was actually a meteor. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-56475333 A very large asteroid zipped past the planet the other day too. No danger, it was beyond the Orbit of the Moon... but one day a big rock will hit us. Edited March 21, 20215 yr by martin-w
March 21, 20215 yr Heard it here on the Somerset/Devon border. It was impressively loud, in a way you could feel it through your entire body. I've heard many sonic booms, but this sounded more like a huge explosion and we feared the worst for a while, assuming a terrible accident.
March 22, 20215 yr I think we are overdue for a significant impact. My computer: ABS Gladiator Gaming PC featuring an Intel 10700F CPU, EVGA CLC-240 AIO cooler (dead fans replaced with Noctua fans), Asus Tuf Gaming B460M Plus motherboard, 16GB DDR4-3000 RAM, 1 TB NVMe SSD, EVGA RTX3070 FTW3 video card, dead EVGA 750 watt power supply replaced with Antec 900 watt PSU.
March 22, 20215 yr Author 15 hours ago, Novation said: Heard it here on the Somerset/Devon border. It was impressively loud, in a way you could feel it through your entire body. I've heard many sonic booms, but this sounded more like a huge explosion and we feared the worst for a while, assuming a terrible accident. Oh right. Apparently it was heard in Jersey, I heard nothing in Guernsey.
March 22, 20215 yr 23 minutes ago, stans said: I think we are overdue for a significant impact. Won't worry me mate, I have my escape tunnel 17 miles deep and getting deeper. Having a few little problems with the air conditioner but LOL Tony Tony Chilcott. My System. Motherboard. ASRock Taichi X570 CPU Ryzen 9 3900x (not yet overclocked). RAM 32gb Corsair Vengeance (2x16) 3200mhz. 1 x Gigabyte Aorus GTX1080ti Extreme and a 1200watt PSU. 1 x 1tb SSD 3 x 240BG SSD and 4 x 2TB HDD OS Win 10 Pro 64bit. Simulators ... FS2004/P3Dv4.5/Xplane.DCS/Aeroflyfs2...MSFS to come for sure.
March 22, 20215 yr 1 hour ago, stans said: I think we are overdue for a significant impact. They're like buses; you'll wait ages for one and then three will turn up all at once. Alan Bradbury Check out my youtube flight sim videos: Here
March 22, 20215 yr Author 2 hours ago, stans said: I think we are overdue for a significant impact. I think the last sizable one was Tunguska. That guy, believed to have exploded above the ground, flattened 80 million trees over an area of 830 square miles. Just imagine if it had hit a populated area. All manner of ideas for deflection have been suggested, everything from painting one side of an asteroid white, to parking a satellite next to the asteroid so its gravity nudges it away. One things for sure, it would be a VERY good idea to have some kind of strategy in place. We track them of course, the big ones, but we don't currently have any means in place to deflect any that threaten us. I should add, Tunguska was believed to be an airburst of a stony meteoroid about 100 metres wide. Not gigantic but traveling at crazy velocity. 3 to 30 megatons.
March 22, 20215 yr Author Somebody nabbed a photo of the fireball responsible in Jersey. Bolide class meteor breaking sound barrier. Edited March 22, 20215 yr by martin-w
March 22, 20215 yr Author This is what it sounded like in Weymouth. Double sonic boom. Edited March 22, 20215 yr by martin-w
March 23, 20215 yr On 3/21/2021 at 8:02 AM, martin-w said: At first witnesses were blaming the RAF for breaking the sound barrier. You would have heard it from https://twitter.com/RAF_Luton if the story was RAF related. \Robert Hamlich/
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