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Rokcet Scientist · Post by **Rokcet Scientist** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:13 pm

Depending on the mass and speed it could well have vaporized – disintegrated – on impact. And you would find nothing. Who knows? Maybe a 10 kilo space rock would be enough to create that crater, if it came in at 100.000 km/h?

Digit · Post by **Digit** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:15 pm

The brief images I saw on TV RS showed no signs of the crater having been subject to great heat. Strange that.

Rokcet Scientist · Post by **Rokcet Scientist** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:43 pm

Digit wrote:The brief images I saw on TV RS showed no signs of the crater having been subject to great heat. Strange that.

I's early days yet. It took 65 million years to find the 'spherules' resulting from the 65 KTA event at a few thousand miles from the crater. So I think there's a lot of ground still to be covered with respect to this Peruvian event too.

Hey. Some nuts could even try to make a case for the meteor being a sign of the return of the god(s). Like a regular Star of Bethlehem, only this time 'the Star of Fujimori' . . .
And he did enter the country at that precise time!

(Not voluntarily though)

Forum Monk · Post by **Forum Monk** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 4:11 pm

Rokcet Scientist wrote:Depending on the mass and speed it could well have vaporized – disintegrated – on impact. And you would find nothing. Who knows? Maybe a 10 kilo space rock would be enough to create that crater, if it came in at 100.000 km/h?

A site all about meteorites and bolides:

http://meteorites.lpl.arizona.edu/craters.html

Navigate using the Prev/Next controls at the bottom of the pages.

Beagle · Post by **Beagle** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 7:19 pm

Tennessee Titans in the lead at halftime.

Beagle · Post by **Beagle** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 9:13 pm

And....they win going away. OK, I'll drop the sports scoreboard posting.

Post by **Minimalist** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 9:36 pm

Glad that you're happy.

Post by **Minimalist** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 2:52 pm

Still off topic but seems to me we had a similar discussion once upon a time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq2_JSnZoRQ

Rokcet Scientist · Post by **Rokcet Scientist** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 4:13 pm

Minimalist wrote:
Still off topic but seems to me we had a similar discussion once upon a time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq2_JSnZoRQ

This video has been removed due to terms of use violation.

kbs2244 · Post by **kbs2244** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 4:16 pm

Since you cannot be off topic here.....
I don’t know how many of you are youtube users, but I just read in a trade publication that they are going to start doing what is called “data mining” of the content of their posts.
Note I said “content“. Not “profile.”
This is one of the most powerful of any privacy invasions.
They plan to discover where you spend your time, what you buy, how old you are, what sex you are, how old you are, what movies you watch, what color you like your pants to be, anything you can think of, by scanning and collating the things you post.
They are currently a $40 million a MONTH operation. They expect this to bring themselves into a $70 million a month operation due to the very targeted pop up ads they can place based on their profile of you.
This is just a word to the wise.
I love the internet. But it is very much a two edged sword.

Post by **Minimalist** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 4:59 pm

Rokcet Scientist wrote:
Minimalist wrote:
Still off topic but seems to me we had a similar discussion once upon a time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq2_JSnZoRQ

This video has been removed due to terms of use violation.

I doubt that "terms of use" was the problem. It was the video of this story about how military recruiters encouraged a young man to falsify a high school diploma and helped him obtain a kit to pass a drug test.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/05/ ... 2497.shtml

Rokcet Scientist · Post by **Rokcet Scientist** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 5:00 pm

So throw some spanners in their works: make it a point to post from multiple ip addresses if you can. That ought to make plotting individuals a quantum leap more complex. Hey, I can already see P2P networks springing up to distribute ip proxies. That oughta emasculate their data interpretation capacity! Making it completely unreliable, and therefore worthless.

kbs2244 · Post by **kbs2244** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 5:41 pm

There are already programs out there that take posts from multiple sources, look for similar things like word usage, level of vocabulary, subject matter, type of phraseology, etc. And tie them together.
You can use any of the “anonymous” filters, they may not at first know exactly who you are, (and may leave that to the spy types) but, if you go to the same sites that they are monitoring, (from whatever route) they know what you like to buy. That is what they are after.
They assign you an arbitrary name, “anonymous123abc” and when ever you show up, here come the pop ups.
Of course they do have a trail that is then open to court order power.
“Just be careful out there.”

Beagle · Post by **Beagle** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 6:22 pm

Ahh...military recruiters, the stuff of legend.

Beagle · Post by **Beagle** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 3:18 pm

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/ ... 61,00.html

Right brained or left brained?

If you concentrate, you might get the dancer going the other direction. That is good.