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BuelahMan's Revolt's avatar

How do these rocks fly in on a flat earth scenario? How can these "lights" cause such damage to the Earth's crust when they hit?

What is the probability that Flat Earthers have lost their minds?

David Sharples's avatar

Probability the US' secret weapon Elon Musk is up to an asteroid path correction?

Not sure, but I'm going to sleep well knowing it's high.

Dors's avatar

Quoting: 'The 1908 Tunguska event, caused by a large rock from space, has estimates from 3 to 50 Mt impact energy.'

The 1908 Tunguska event could NOT have been caused by a mere large rock from space. See Vladimir Rubtsov's The Tunguska Mystery (2009).

Gunther Heinz's avatar

Is this like Sasha Latypova's Russian Scientist who says that time itself is a kind of energy? I like Russians, but they can be sort of cooky.

Flippin’ Jersey's avatar

Space Rocks is a good band name. Their first album could be “Newsworthy Bolides”.

la chevalerie vit's avatar

Can we plot the explosion Mt vs. # events for this? “easy enough to calculate, as long as the number of events isn’t too large, because when they are the calculations blow up due to combinatorial explosion.”🤣

William M Briggs's avatar

Added at the bottom. Thanks.

la chevalerie vit's avatar

beautiful thanks!

Prodigal's avatar

Is there any data for the cleansing blue flame? My personal favorite.

la chevalerie vit's avatar

Doesn’t one need to observe two 100 Teraton events to even calculate a mean time between 100TT incidents based on N=1?

William M Briggs's avatar

Depends on the model one uses. That log-log fit, for instance, doesn’t need that. Of course, to prove the model is good would require us to observe those impacts.