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Perhaps a simpler path is in the relationship of the number of people who have been verifiably struck by meteorites (e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Hod
by marshray 13y ago
Perhaps a simpler path is in the relationship of the number of people who have been verifiably struck by meteorites (e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Hodges https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Hodges ), the proportion of people on the ground to those skydiving with helmetcams at any given time, and the relative cross-sectional target area of a person compared to the visibility frustrum of a helmetcam.
- bertil 13y agoIndeed. Most jumpers now have several cameras so you can assume the proportion of skydivers is enough. It‘s still less than ten millions minutes overall, while billions of humans live half a million minutes each year. Now considering three recorded events (listed in your source) over the course of five centuries… This still means it would take billions of years of jumping to reasonably come across such an event. That calculations makes it far more likely that the previous one I made, most likely because I highly underestimated the number of meteoroids. The weakness of that method is that you are limiting the visibility of humans on the ground to being struck, although one can argue that the buy in Uganda was a case of it coming close enough to notice.
- marshray 13y agoUnless there's something special about low altitude, why wouldn't we expect a terrestrial camera with a view of the sky to have a reasonable chance of capturing dark flight? I know skydivers do a lot of filming, but seems more likely that the first dark flight would be caught by tourists on a sunny day or something.