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Outerra Engine => Ideas & Suggestions & Questions => Topic started by: ZeosPantera on February 16, 2013, 09:58:19 am

Title: Real Asteroid data?
Post by: ZeosPantera on February 16, 2013, 09:58:19 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAlF4xxRTwI#t=340s (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAlF4xxRTwI#t=340s)

How about getting this dataset and having the realworld asteroid data floating around. What kind of load would this put in a client. Obviously you wouldn't have to see it all, all the time from earth.

Title: Re: Real Asteroid data?
Post by: Steve.Wilson on February 16, 2013, 02:37:13 pm

Zeos, that was a fantastic way to spend 14 minutes.  Thanks for finding and sharing.  I saw video of the Ural event this morning.  Scary stuff.  Big, bangity bang bang bang.  Loud, too.  "The sky is falling (tm)."

And we don't even need Bruce Willis to save us.  Another plus.  :D

Title: Re: Real Asteroid data?
Post by: ZeosPantera on February 16, 2013, 03:12:57 pm

I just wonder what would have happened a few decades ago should that very loud BANG occurred over Russia in less quiet times.

Das Americana! El-Bombo!

Title: Re: Real Asteroid data?
Post by: Steve.Wilson on February 16, 2013, 03:27:51 pm

I would like to think that cooler heads would have prevailed and done a bit of analysis before a knee jerk start to WWIII.  Still, one never knows, and it's funny that one talking head in Russia did indeed blame the US for the event.

The real teller is that a nuclear weapon re-entry vehicle contrail would not have been that flamboyant since they are very small, even though the blast that I've seen sure reminds me of a small nuke.