tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post1403660924241400358..comments2023-09-02T14:13:10.364-07:00Comments on Mouse's Musings: My Gift to You: a Three-Piece SnarkMousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11936002393931074811noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post-63516808942456938642012-07-04T04:08:51.903-07:002012-07-04T04:08:51.903-07:00>>The Soviets managed to run subs with draft...>>The Soviets managed to run subs with draftees, so it must be possible. Seems like a pretty bad plan unless you have no other option, though.<br /><br />There's a difference between using draftees, who probably don't want to be there but are theoretically at least semi-loyal citizens, and actually enslaving your enemies to operate sensitive military equipment.<br /><br />Apparently it's the size of the Appalachian Mountains but the astronomers only just now spotted it and they predict it will burn up in the atmosphere.<br /><br />Hmm an asteroid of that size could theoretically 'burn up in the atmosphere', but only if it was travelling at a sufficient velocity that contacting the air itself would cause it to vaporize - simply because the energy is so immense that every atom of air hits with the force of a tactical nuke. Unfortunately, that's gonna be a fair fraction of the speed of light. As in, more like 90000 kilometers per second than 10-20.<br /><br />Which gives us 3.037E+34 Joules. So yeah. That's pretty close to 'Death Star' level power there...<br /><br />>><br />If a fairly small (by appalachian standards) meteor could do *that*, it really wouldn't take too large of a fella to just smash the hell out of a hemisphere or so.<br /><br />Yeah. The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs was something like 5-10 kilometers in diameter.Base Delta Zeronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post-72758649019019847592011-12-27T12:28:21.442-08:002011-12-27T12:28:21.442-08:00Wait. Vicki dyed her hair BLACK?
Is there a reas...Wait. Vicki dyed her hair BLACK?<br /><br />Is there a reason given for this? <br /><br />And isn't Vicki a natural redhead? Hell, Jenkins even gave her a nice Irish surname (Byrne).<br /><br />If she is a natural redhead and is trying to make people believe she has black hair, she will fail. It is screamingly obvious when very fair people dye their hair dark, just as it is screamingly obvious when dark-featured people dye their hair blonde.<br /><br />So if Vicki is trying to look like someone with black hair, she is very stupid. OTOH, if she is trying to look like the RTC vision of a Rebellious Teenager who is dying her hair black so she can be more emo, then...that may be kinda brilliant.<br /><br />Hmmmm...RubyTeahttp://heathencritique.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post-18005084137021153022011-12-26T03:09:23.081-08:002011-12-26T03:09:23.081-08:00Ha! Phil Plait (AKA the Bad Astronomer) would tot...Ha! Phil Plait (AKA the Bad Astronomer) would totally snark the heck out of this bit. He has a section on his old Bad Astronomy site where he tears into the bad science of movies like Armageddon and Deep Impact; he knows a lot of *very* cool stuff about asteroids, comets, meteors and what would happen if one of them hit Earth. Well worth reading!Mrs Grimblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13144324075681694482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post-37316767168674118702011-12-25T20:28:33.937-08:002011-12-25T20:28:33.937-08:00I'd be interested in seeing that section with ...I'd be interested in seeing that section with the teens actually being teenagers (instead of little RTCs trying to be like Rayford and Buck or Chloe and Amanda).<br /><br />As for Firedrake's commentary on the meteor? Holy astronomy, Batman! L&J should have radically scaled down the size of the thing. The working theory is that a meteorite was the source of the still not fully explainable explosion over Siberia.<br /><br />If a fairly small (by appalachian standards) meteor could do *that*, it really wouldn't take too large of a fella to just smash the hell out of a hemisphere or so.<br /><br />I find it funny that Judd really is a mini-Rayford in some respects. The only action-y thing Rayford does, aside from being much like Buck, standing aside instead of interfering, is to use his "Saber" gun to try and shoot Nicolae (that, and he uses some fancy weapon near the final battle).<br /><br />Judd, so far, strikes me as being set up by L&J to be much the same - inadvertently perhaps *doing* something but for the most part content to be with his future wife Vicki on the sidelines and carping at anyone who isn't an RTC because the YTF have Jesus, that's why.Apocalypse Reviewhttp://apocalypsereview.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post-90777761811326124912011-12-25T15:22:55.125-08:002011-12-25T15:22:55.125-08:00I guess the YTF at least isn't actively collab...I guess the YTF at least isn't actively collaborating with the enemy, the way the TF proper is.<br /><br />The Soviets managed to run subs with draftees, so it must be possible. Seems like a pretty bad plan unless you have no other option, though.<br /><br />Do they say what sort of submarine it is? What weapon does it use in the attack, from how far away? Anything like that?<br /><br />...yeah, back in the real world you get more than a few hours' notice of an incoming meteor.<br /><br />Wikipedia calls the Appalachians about 1500 miles long x 100-300 miles wide. Even assuming it's a slab only a mile deep, that's around 7e18 kg. Impact energy at 11-20km/s is around 4e26-1e27 J - in the low hundreds of petatons range. Good news! Earth's gravitational binding energy is 2e32 J. So there will actually be a planet left. Ecosystem and atmosphere, not so much.Firedrakenoreply@blogger.com