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Maybe those UFOs we shot down weren't just weather balloons from amateur clubs...... Good thing I've been playing a lot of XCOM recently. On a more serious no
by kneebonian 4y ago
Maybe those UFOs we shot down weren't just weather balloons from amateur clubs......
Good thing I've been playing a lot of XCOM recently.
On a more serious note is it possible this is another "Oh my god" particle event (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh-My-God_particle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh-My-God_particle)
- MiguelHudnandez 4y agoI'm not sure if there's any reason to think it's anything more exotic than a meteor. Beautiful, for sure, but plenty of totally typical phenomena are beautiful.
- RajT88 4y agoI suspect that even at that energy level we'd not be able to see a single particle way high up in the atmosphere. But I'm no physicist so who knows.
- kadoban 4y agoYou're right. Even if we could see it, it'd be more of an impossibly-brief flash of light that dumps all of its energy in one place. It wouldn't be a weird fireball that moves across the sky.