Near Earth Asteroids go by every day. Some much closer that the one they talk about in the article. Check out the daily list at https://spaceweather.com/
Of course. But who decides if they are the size of the Eiffel tower, the Empire State Building, or the Taj Mahal? Who names them, and why? And how to write 78,88,295? This is why the articles can be used for comms independently of any actual rocks whizzing by. Not everybody goes for comms, but if you're interested in some better examples of coded communications using space artefacts, take a look: https://decodingsymbols.wordpress.com/2021/08/14/asteroids-and-comets/
Near Earth Asteroids go by every day. Some much closer that the one they talk about in the article. Check out the daily list at https://spaceweather.com/
That bitch going 16.8 Kilometers per second is the one that worries me.
Of course. But who decides if they are the size of the Eiffel tower, the Empire State Building, or the Taj Mahal? Who names them, and why? And how to write 78,88,295? This is why the articles can be used for comms independently of any actual rocks whizzing by. Not everybody goes for comms, but if you're interested in some better examples of coded communications using space artefacts, take a look: https://decodingsymbols.wordpress.com/2021/08/14/asteroids-and-comets/