Re: Dinner Tonight, 1/31/2025

On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 21:58:20 +0000, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:

On 2025-02-11, gm <gregorymorrow@msn.com> wrote:
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For purposes of contrast, the space object that hit Siberia in 1908 is
estimated to have been 130 feet long, and it decimated almost 800 square
miles of forest. Furthermore, an asteroid strike today could cause a
chemical, gas or nuclear accident...
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A possibility of 2.3% is not as low as it might sound at first. The
chance of drawing three of a kind in a standard five-card poker game,
for example, is a about 2.9%. Three of a kind is hardly an unprecedented
event..."

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Tunguska has always fascinated me, massive destruction and no witnesses.
Regarding the coming threat, Elon has it covered. No worries.
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leo

Heck, Elon will capture and *land* the thing so's we can get the
valuable minerals in it...
Glad space is "cool" again, reminds me of when I was a kid...
The neatest space thing I remember is the first live Telstar TV
transmission from Europe in the summer of 1962...
Memories...!!!
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GM
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