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Quoted: That's not the right hole. That hole was made by Skylab landing. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: https://i.gifer.com/PRyM.gif It was the sentiment |
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Quoted: I doubt that. If it were that violent how is the visitor center still standing? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes |
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Probably a 10mm shot into the air during New Years.
There you go folks, the bullets do come back down. |
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Actually, there was a house standing there but it had a spider in it and the forum that the dude hung out on said "nuke it from space" so he did...
eta: Sadly, the spider survived... |
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There’s a few smaller impact sites one a little north and another just to the south that I’ve always wanted to check out just for kicks.
There’s a chunk in the visitors center and I enjoyed the reactions when I asked on the tour if they tell people how radioactive it still is before they touch it? (It’s not) |
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Dang.
If I were in the bathroom if the visitors center when that hit........it would have startled the heck out of me. |
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I have a funny story from going about three years ago. I had been to the crater and was coming back when I rounded a corner and this little boy almost ran into me. I must have scared him because he ran off screaming daddy daddy that big man he looked at me.
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Quoted: There’s a few smaller impact sites one a little north and another just to the south that I’ve always wanted to check out just for kicks. There’s a chunk in the visitors center and I enjoyed the reactions when I asked on the tour if they tell people how radioactive it still is before they touch it? (It’s not) View Quote It's not, I put a radiation detector on it to find out |
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Quoted: For the last 42 years I have lived an hour and a half drive from there - and yet I have never been there (on the ground). I should fix that sometime... View Quote When you get there, take a picture. If a meteor that size hit's your house while you are looking at Meteor crater, that picture will be worth a lot of money. |
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Quoted: You really should. The "energy" in that area is pretty wild. I didn't know dirt could have "energy" but you can feel it when you're out in that part of the state. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: For the last 42 years I have lived an hour and a half drive from there - and yet I have never been there (on the ground). I should fix that sometime... You really should. The "energy" in that area is pretty wild. I didn't know dirt could have "energy" but you can feel it when you're out in that part of the state. You should walk around barefoot to capture the best energy. |
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2 pilots flew a small plane inside the crater and couldn't get back out of it.
They had to fly around in circles until they ran out of gas and crashed in the bottom. they lived |
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The Mauna Loa crater is pretty cool...well, steamy and steep and deep.
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Quoted: Was I the only one thinking..."mile-long shooting range with no wind" https://i.imgur.com/qJd8YgY.jpg View Quote Yeah, that's one use. But I think Elon should build a huge acrylic sealed dome over it, pump out all of the air, and use the crater for full scale development of Mars housing and fuel structures... |
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Quite a bit of security there. They have a spot light that will light you up several miles away.
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Nobody has photoshopped BernieInAChair into the crater yet
Maybe we should just call the whole fake crater off! |
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Wow. I remember when that happened!!! Brian Williams was at the visitors center.
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I went there as a kid. I bought a little piece of the meteor in the gift shop, still have it somewhere
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How deep do you suppose that you’d have to dig in order to find large meteorite pieces?
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View Quote Where did the metor go? rock just doesn't disappear. Did someone mine it? Aliens take it? |
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Quoted: Quoted: How deep do you suppose that you’d have to dig in order to find large meteorite pieces? 87' 87% of the meteor was vaporized into gas. 13% was scattered as meteor droplets. Very small hardened droplets of meteor stuff. |
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Quoted: What I find both hilarious and sad is that some bozo bought that crater, looking for the huge blob of iron that just HAD to be in there. He spent decades sifting through the dirt from that crater, but never found that huge blob of iron, just millions of tiny raindrops of iron. View Quote Actually it’s not surprising. Our understanding of impact craters on the earth was grossly incorrect until we began preparing for the moon landings. Everyone had always assumed impact craters would have a huge chunk of the impactor buried in the bottom of the crater. A geologist by the name of Eugene Shoemaker was instrumental in helping revise our understanding to show that most impactors vaporize during impact, and leave only tiny fragments. This revelation led to the understanding of what wiped out the dinosaurs via the Chicxulub crater. |
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