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RE: Discoveries by the telescopes on Mauna Kea - eightfingers2.0 - 09-19-2020

The Wright brothers were ridiculed as “mad men” for their attempts at flying.

I think you can see there are some benefits to their “research”.


RE: Discoveries by the telescopes on Mauna Kea - randomq - 09-20-2020

https://www.reddit.com/r/BigIsland/comments/iw8yrc/big_meteor_just_flew_over_and_exploded/

Didja see anything TomK?


RE: Discoveries by the telescopes on Mauna Kea - TomK - 09-20-2020

No, I didn't. Sounds like a bolide (fireball) when you get a largish meteor hitting the atmosphere and exploding as it gets farther into the atmosphere. I don't see a time-stamp on that thread but the MK webcams may have caught it.

kalianna - did you actually take the time to watch any of the videos I posted? I hoped that you would have seen the answer to your question there.


RE: Discoveries by the telescopes on Mauna Kea - kalianna - 09-20-2020

Oh oh, I guess I have to confess.  I didn't get very far.  I worked on the original Cosmos series with Carl Sagan and spent so much time on it that to this day I can't stand the very distinctive sound of his voice.  And now I'll go to sleep and keep hearing, "Billions and billions of stars".


RE: Discoveries by the telescopes on Mauna Kea - TomK - 09-21-2020

So you didn't watch them. And I'll now just pick on one of your responses earlier because I'm tired:

"In terms of your questions, I think that oceanography is necessary to predict tidal changes [...]"

How can anyone predict the tides without astronomy?


RE: Discoveries by the telescopes on Mauna Kea - randomq - 09-21-2020

Tides come in, tides go out, nobody knows why.


RE: Discoveries by the telescopes on Mauna Kea - eightfingers2.0 - 09-22-2020

A rising tide lifts all boats.


RE: Discoveries by the telescopes on Mauna Kea - TomK - 09-23-2020

OK, you got me. We usually just look for the moon and guess. It seems to have worked so far. Same with GPS - how can it possibly work with a flat earth? It's all a hoax.


RE: Discoveries by the telescopes on Mauna Kea - eightfingers2.0 - 09-23-2020

GPS actually works better for flat earths, it’s all Cartesian and stuff. Mercator not needed.


RE: Discoveries by the telescopes on Mauna Kea - HereOnThePrimalEdge - 09-23-2020

This is a discovery by Pan-STARRS on Haleakala - - Earth may soon have a new, and temporary mini-moon.  Astronomers aren't yet certain whether it's an asteroid or an old 1960's rocket booster, but whatever it turns out to be, it will arrive sometime this fall:

Scientists first spotted the object on Aug. 19 using the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) observatory in Hawaii.
Minimoon or space junk, scientists currently suspect that 2020 SO will fall into orbit this fall, then make its closest approach to Earth on Dec. 1 and Feb. 3, according to NASA, before slipping away again in the spring.
https://www.space.com/earth-minimoon-2020-so-may-be-vintage-space-junk