meteorite explodes over eastern Missouri

If meteor strike is such a danger, why don't we have more mid-sized impacts, ones which leave a meaningful crater..?

Just another bug hunt.

originally posted by: FlyingFox
If meteor strike is such a danger, why don't we have more mid-sized impacts, ones which leave a meaningful crater..?

Just another bug hunt.

So, you're not worried about 1000 Hiroshima bombs all exploding simultaneously just because there's no crater? That's the estimated energy released in the Tunguska event of 1908 which left no crater. We were lucky the area wasn't populated because if it was, a lot of people would have been killed.

I think if you were in Hiroshima when the bomb went off, you would consider just one Hiroshima bomb a danger.

Meteorites don't explode over anything.

originally posted by: Phage
Meteorites don't explode over anything.

I award you this free picture of a T-shirt for that post!



Meteor and meteorite do admittedly sound similar, but at least the videos posted by Fools and roadgravel used the right word.

originally posted by: neo96
Maybe someone should create a nationwide skywatch site like they have for weather stations.

Yes, there are now thousands of fairly high definition cameras constantly filming the skies day and night. But who is going to review all that footage from all those cameras to see if there is a UFO in them? Thousands of cameras, thousands of hours, just to see a little crazy light in the sky or a speck of a flying saucer. Here's a favorite of mine. Very scenic:
www.coloradowebcam.net...

The answer is out there, but we don't have the time or money or inclination to actually look for it.

a reply to: Blue Shift

But who is going to review all that footage from all those cameras to see if there is a UFO in them?

A program like Folding at home using video anaylitics that security cameras already use.

originally posted by: FlyingFox
If meteor strike is such a danger, why don't we have more mid-sized impacts, ones which leave a meaningful crater..?

Just another bug hunt.

Most never reach the ground. Most happen over water (75% of the Earth's surface).

originally posted by: neo96
a reply to: Blue Shift

But who is going to review all that footage from all those cameras to see if there is a UFO in them?

A program like Folding at home using video anaylitics that security cameras already use.

You still have to look at them to make sure they're not moths or bats or ghosts instead of UFOs.

a reply to: Blue Shift

After hundreds,thousands,millions have been eliminated.

Why are you under estimating video analytics ?

Motion Tracking,object recognition.

originally posted by: neo96
Why are you under estimating video analytics ?

That's not what I'm saying at all. What exactly would you program into the AI so that it will trigger a UFO alert? Unusually bright spots of light floating around? Flying saucers? Orbs? That's going to capture all kinds of bugs and webs and airplanes and meteors and stuff -- all the while doing its normal job of monitoring for burglars and Jehovah's Witnesses. And it probably wouldn't work as well during the day, so you'd miss 12 hours of surveillance time right off the top.

But even if it triggered and captured exactly what you told it to, you'd still have to review and analyze it anyway, just to see what it really was. There's no way you could program it to capture something "unusual." It doesn't understand that. It can only trigger when something in the image has changed.

So while applying an (expensive) AI analytical program to the system might reduce the total number of videos you had to look at, somebody will eventually have to sit down and look at all them. And then when you do find a "real" UFO, what do you have? An image of something unidentified. Not worth beans because there are so many these days.

ufostalker.com...

heard the news stay safe those who live in Missouri.

originally posted by: Blue Shift

originally posted by: FlyingFox
If meteor strike is such a danger, why don't we have more mid-sized impacts, ones which leave a meaningful crater..?

Just another bug hunt.

Most never reach the ground. Most happen over water (75% of the Earth's surface).

Well actually an small meteor actually did hit our apartment and in our floor. Of our balcony no huge damage but it did leave a mark on the wall near the window.

a reply to: Arbitrageur

Lives are cheap. If I die by a meteor impact, so be it.