Oumuamua

[Tiki Tom]

Just my luck, that's the year I'm planning to retire!

The odds for that asteroid strike have now gone up. It is now a 1 in 48 chance.

https://www.the-sun.com/tech/13562947/chilling-new-telescope-photos-city-killer-asteroid/

 

[Tiki Tom]

Updated to 1 in 38 chance. This is not heading in the right direction!

https://www.independent.co.uk/space/asteroid-2024-yr4-nasa-earth-chances-b2700006.html

Risk corridor is apparently south of North America and Europe. (But I note that Hawaii seems to be on/near the path!). As you can see, some very large cities are in danger.

 

[Liam_Og]

Time to increase scientists and international space agency funding eh.

Why not increase scientists pay to be inline with football, soccer, baseball, and basketball players?

I’m confident that the best paid people on the planet will come up with solutions for virus outbreaks and potential asteroid impacts.

90m strikes me as a doable problem though.

 

[Olumin]

Against asteroids/comets there are a few viable solutions:

Change the objects trajectory/orbit enough so that it misses earth. This can be accomplished by detonations in close proximity to the object or an impactor (effectively "pushing" it). For this to be effective it requires data of the objects composition and density, as to not destroy or fracture it by accident.

Total or partial destruction of the asteroid. Total destruction would mean vaporisation accomplished via a single or a series of fusion warheads. This is impractical or impossible for objects past a certain size, as this would require Giga or Teraton warheads. Partial destruction can be effective if done early enough to leave the resulting debris field enough time to spread out, resulting in most of the asteroid missing earth.

For a 90m object, it might be cheaper to simply evacuate the affected area and rebuild.

 

[Liam_Og]

For a 90m object, it might be cheaper to simply evacuate the affected area and rebuild.

What do you base your assessment on?

90m is good practice for 900m. I reckon dealing with it in space might provide an excellent learning opportunity.

I must inform myself better soon.

 

[Olumin]

What do you base your assessment on?

90m is good practice for 900m. I reckon dealing with it in space might provide an excellent learning opportunity.

I must inform myself better soon.

Just my personal opinion. I believe that we either already posses the necessary tech to deal with a serious asteroid should one become a problem, or that "others" will deal with it for us if its sufficiently dangerous. Either way if it ever became necessary chances are we would never even know it happened.

 

[Tiki Tom]

Odds continue to drop. Now a 1 in 32 chance.

https://thehill.com/homenews/5152487-asteroid-hurtling-toward-earth-odds-2032/

 

[Tiki Tom]

I’ll keep an eye out for this one: 34 high level current gov officials interviewed on the topic of UFOs.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/m...age-of-disclosure-movie-interview-1236154768/

it is a bit of a circus out there. So I’d like to hear from people who are not dependent on YouTube hits to make a living.

 

[Tiki Tom]

So…. David Grusch, famous whistleblower who says The U.S. has a UFO crash retrieval program (he’s also an ex intelligence officer with highly respected creds), has been hired as a Senior Advisor to Congress. Some insiders say this is a way to get around security clearance issues that prevent him from saying more…

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5214211-david-grusch-eric-burlison-ufo-transparency/

 

[Tiki Tom]

^^^^^
Breaking news: David Grusch will finally be getting into a SCIF (Secure Compartmentalized Intelligence Facility). It has taken almost two years. You’ll recall that at the famous Congressional hearing he said more than once “ I can’t tell you that in a public hearing, but I could share details in a SCIF.” Well, supposedly, every procedural obstacle was used to keep him OUT of that SCIF. But, apparently, Grusch’s getting hired by a Congressman has done the trick.

 

[The one from the North]

I'm absolutely thrilled to see this unfolding. Just can't make up my mind what to think. On the other hand this Grusch fellow, among others, has a high credibility, on the other, so far has been all talk, no evidence... I do have a nagging feeling that this may be just a great hoax. Anyway I'm intrigued. Fascinating.

 

[Tiki Tom]

Newly released Navy footage of UAPs…

 

[Tiki Tom]

From Finland. Hmm. This one seems a little too good to be true. First, it seems odd that the alleged UFO is playing around so far away in the sky, and then suddenly swings down and comes so close to the camera. Secondly, the light on the snow at the end strikes me as ever so slightly “off” or slightly mistimed. My opinion. Interesting clip.

In other news, we are still waiting for any news at all about that SCIF meeting with David Grusch that is supposedly scheduled for late April. I have heard zero additional information about the meeting.

 

[Liam_Og]

The light on the snow at the start strikes me as more suspect. The light suddenly appears when the object has already been over the snow for a while. Presumably it should have been casting light onto the snow the entire time.

 

[The one from the North]

From Finland. Hmm. This one seems a little too good to be true. First, it seems odd that the alleged UFO is playing around so far away in the sky, and then suddenly swings down and comes so close to the camera. Secondly, the light on the snow at the end strikes me as ever so slightly “off” or slightly mistimed. My opinion. Interesting clip.

In other news, we are still waiting for any news at all about that SCIF meeting with David Grusch that is supposedly scheduled for late April. I have heard zero additional information about the meeting.

Somehow I get an impression of brightly lit, somewhat overexposured drone... There seem to be frost haze in the air and that with the reflections from snow can do funny things to light.

 

[Liam_Og]

The light on the snow at the start strikes me as more suspect. The light suddenly appears when the object has already been over the snow for a while. Presumably it should have been casting light onto the snow the entire time.

 

[Tiki Tom]

Science fiction is ever closer To being reality. The following story is in today’s NYTimes, but I’m linking the Reuters version to avoid the Time’s paywall.

https://www.reuters.com/science/sci...evidence-yet-life-an-alien-planet-2025-04-16/

In short, it seems that we humans are about an inch away from saying that we believe we have discovered life on a distant exoplanet. We haven’t quite said it yet in so many words. But the evidence is starting to look pretty compelling.

 

[Liam_Og]

Science fiction is ever closer To being reality. The following story is in today’s NYTimes, but I’m linking the Reuters version to avoid the Time’s paywall.

https://www.reuters.com/science/sci...evidence-yet-life-an-alien-planet-2025-04-16/

In short, it seems that we humans are about an inch away from saying that we believe we have discovered life on a distant exoplanet. We haven’t quite said it yet in so many words. But the evidence is starting to look pretty compelling.

That’s cool!

 

[Tiki Tom]

News from Representative Anna Paulina Luna.

SCIF hearing will be on 29 April;
Round table discussion the following day or the next day;
And a full committee HEARING on UAP the week of 12 May.

https://x.com/repluna?lang=en

The significance of this is that, after two years, they have finally managed to get whistleblower David Grusch into a SCIF. The saying “we live in interesting times” is an understatement.